A DRUG-driver has been banned for three years after she was caught out while on her phone and over the limit.

Andrea Jones entered guilty pleas to one count of driving while over the drug limit and one count of using a handheld mobile phone while driving a vehicle on a road when she appeared before magistrates in Hereford in June.

The court heard from prosecutor Mark Hambling that the 44-year-old had been caught using a handheld mobile phone while behind the wheel of a red Audi A3 in Hereford's Whitecross Road on January 13.

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She was also found to have been driving while over the drug limit on the same date, the court heard.

An evidential blood test revealed that Jones, who was represented at the hearing by defence solicitor Marilena Di Vitantonio, had 244 microgrammes of controlled class A drug product cocaine metabolite benzoylecgonine per litre of blood. The legal limit is 50 microgrammes.

Jones, of Holywell Gutter Lane, Hereford, was disqualified from driving for three years and fined £120.