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Celebration boozy smash
A Matlock woman's Mother's Day celebration ended in her boozy son crashing a car into a wall.
Damien Lavelle took his mum for lunch at the Red Lion in Matlock Green and drank two pints of beer.
Family members went back to her home and then Lavelle (36) returned to the pub to meet a friend.
"He was there four hours and had three or four pints of a strong lager that the pub was trialling on offer," his solicitor, Julie Page, told Chesterfield magistrates.
"It was an error of judgement and he clipped the kerb on a bend and collided with a wall."
Mark Salt, prosecuting, said the collision occurred in Causeway Lane at around 10pm on March 14 and Lavelle escaped serious injury.
He gave a reading of 64mcgs of alcohol in 100mls of breath - almost twice the 35mcgs limit.
Lavelle, who lives in Nottingham, admitted drink-driving. He had no previous convictions.
The bench fined him 195, with 85 costs, and imposed a 20-month road ban, to be cut to 15 months if he passes a drink-driving rehabilitation course.
Miss Page said Lavelle was a designer and fitter of ironwork and could walk to work until the ban ends.
She added: "He has contacted the owners of the damaged wall to make recompense to them directly.
"He has had to ring his girlfriend, who is on holiday in South Africa, to explain that her vehicle is damaged."
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