Impaired driver Michael Brian Simmons? attempt to avoid justice by giving a false name was blown when his mother telephoned as he was giving a breath specimen at a Police station.

His earlier attempt to shake off a Police patrol by making an illegal right turn in a car, then jumping out of the driver?s seat and into the back seat when the car was pulled over and finally giving a false name to an officer ended up costing the 20 year old $2,100 in fines and a one -year driving ban.

Simmons, of Kitchener Close, Sandys, told Magistrates? court that he was trying to do two friends a favour by driving them home because they had been drinking.

Unfortunately for Simmons he had also drunk enough alcohol to put him over the legal limit and his slightly wayward driving was noted by a Police patrol as he drove a green car along Lover?s Lane in Paget on September 24.

Crown counsel Paula Tyndale told the court that at 3.29 a.m. the Police patrol began to follow the car Simmons was driving, noticing that it was being driven at a slow speed and was veering from side to side along South Road and then made an illegal right turn onto St. Paul?s Lane, mounting the kerb before going back onto the road.

The car, which was carrying two passengers, was stopped and as a Police officer went to speak to the driver Simmons was seen getting out of the driver?s seat and climbing into the back seat.

The officer told Simmons he had seen him moving out of the driver?s seat. Simmons told the Police: ?I know I do not have a licence, but I was trying to take my friends back because they have had too much to drink.?

Simmons was suspected of also having drunk alcohol and was arrested, at which point he gave the officer a false name.

He was taken to the Police station to give breath samples, the lowest of which was 137 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath compared to the legal limit of 80 milligrammes.

While at the Police station Simmons? mother called and it was at this point that his true identity was revealed to the Police.

Simmons pleaded guilty to having no driving licence, driving while impaired by alcohol and attempting to pervert the course of justice by giving a false name to a Police officer.

He apologised to Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner and was fined $100 for having no licence, $1,000 and banned from driving any vehicle for 12 months for driving while impaired and fined a further $1,000 for attempting to pervert the course of justice.