A drunk motorcycle rider who crashed and injured himself was found with a bottle of vodka in his pocket after the accident.

Bradley Lindo, 27, admitted impaired driving when he appeared at Magistrates' Court yesterday.

Prosecutor Takiyah Burgess said he was travelling west on The Lane in Paget around 3.15 p.m on February 6 when he collided with the back of a car. Lindo had to be taken to hospital for treatment, and when the Police came to speak to him they noticed his eyes were glazed and his speech was slurred. He admitted he'd been drinking. The officers also found a bottle of Smirnoff vodka in his jacket pocket, which they confiscated.

Ms Burgess said Lindo was breath-tested once he was discharged from hospital and the reading was 277 mg of alcohol in 100 ml of blood the legal limit is 80 mg.

She told Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner that Lindo works as a butcher at Butterfield and Vallis, and has no similar previous convictions. The defendant told Mr. Warner: "I just apologise for it. It was a bad decision."

The Magistrate fined him $1,000, banned him from driving for a year, and meted out ten demerit points.