Drink-driver called police herself after A47 crash, King's Lynn court told

A drink-driver called police herself after running her car into a field off the A47.

Danielle Willey phoned for help and waited by the side of the road until officers arrived at East Winch.

It was just after 10pm on February 15 and it emerged she was almost three times the drink-drive limit.

Lynn Magistrates’ Court was told on Thursday that Willey told police that she had driven from Boston after an argument with her partner.

Prosecutor Collette Harper said: “She said she’d had a couple of sips of gin before getting into the car and had two cans of gin while in the car.”

In custody, Willey gave a reading of 96 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35.

The 25-year-old, who had no previous convictions, pleaded guilty to drink-driving.

Solicitor Charlotte Winchester, mitigating, said: “What she said to me is ‘I’ve messed up’.

“She had previously had a drink problem and had been sober for two years.”

Miss Winchester said pressures of home schooling, lockdown and difficulties in her relationship had led her client to go back to “her old crutch” of alcohol.

Willey’s partner finding out she was drinking again had led to an argument and the defendant was driving to an address in Wroxham.

“She’s really sorry for it,” added Miss Winchester. “Since this incident she has not drunk any alcohol and has enrolled with AA.”

Willey, of Armtree Road, Langrick, near Boston, was disqualified from driving for two years, which can be cut by 24 weeks with completion of a drink-driver rehabilitation course.

She was also fined £384 and told to pay £143 in costs and victim surcharge.