A 53-year-old man pleaded guilty to impaired driving in April this year when he appeared in Magistrates' Court.

However, Mervin Dwayne Cross, of West Side Road, Somerset, tried to explain that it was because he drinks every day – so the alcohol was stored from his previous consumption.

Crown Counsel Larissa Burgess told the court that on April 10 around 7.30 p.m. Police responded to a traffic accident on Beacon Hill, in Somerset, between a car and motorcycle.

When they approached the self-employed handyman, he identified himself as the bike rider and said 'I had one beer but I'm not drunk' and they arrested him under suspicion of impaired driving.

According to Ms. Burgess, he was also reported to have a beer bottle in his left hand before he slid out on his bike and became trapped underneath the car on the opposite side of the road.

Unable to free himself, Cross had to be helped by the car driver's son.

Cross tried to argue that the incident happened on a lane not a road and he drank every day so the alcohol would be stored in his body.

"I drink every day so it stays in my pores. If I went right now you would probably see I am drunk cause it's still in there.

"I am guilty but I wasn't driving on a main road. I fell in front of her, but it was a lane. I was going to my friend's house. I came from down the road."

On Friday, Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner explained that even if he did not feel like he was drunk, if his blood measure was a certain level it counted as an offence.

Cross was fined $1,000, disqualified from driving all vehicles for 12 months and given 10 demerit points.