Two people were banned from the roads for a year in Magistrates' Court yesterday after pleading guilty to drunk driving.

Alexander Adelsberg, 26, and Denise O'Rourke, 48, were fined $1,000 each and disqualified from all vehicles for 12 months after admitting to driving while impaired.

Adelsberg, of Fruitland Lane, Pembroke, apologised to Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner for having been pulled over by Police, who found his shirt and pants soiled with vomit.

After smelling alcohol on his breath and noting his slurred speech, Police asked Adelsberg whether he'd been drinking.

Senior Crown counsel Cindy Clarke told the court that Adelsberg admitted: "I had a few beers."

A blood test revealed he had more than 200 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood well over the legal limit to drive, which is 80 milligrams per 100 millilitres.

Adelsberg told Mr. Warner he needed his bike for his job as a surveyor with Bermuda Project Managers, but was disqualified from all vehicles regardless.

Denise O'Rourke of Pie Crust Place, Southampton, was pulled over by Police on May 6 after being observed driving without headlights at 11.30 p.m. on South Road.

Ms Clarke told the court that O'Rourke almost collided with a stone wall, and was driving into the oncoming lane.

Police could smell "intoxicating substances" on O'Rourke's breath, and she admitted "I think I had too much" when asked whether she had been drinking.