A DRUG-DRIVER has been handed a three-year roads ban after he was caught out on a Herefordshire main road.
Brett Mccormack appeared before magistrates in Hereford earlier this month and entered a guilty plea to one count of driving a motor vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug, namely benzoylecgonine, above the limit.
The court heard from the prosecuting solicitor that the 28-year-old had been caught driving his Toyota on the A40 in Ross-on-Wye on June 17.
The specific stretch of the A40 he was caught on was not given in court documents.
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He was found to have a reading of 85 micrograms (mg) of benzoylecgonine, a metabolite of cocaine, in his blood, exceeding the limit of 50 mg.
Mccormack, of St Clair Street, Crewe, Buckinghamshire, was fined £500 and disqualified from driving for three years, with magistrates saying they had taken his guilty plea into account when imposing the sentence.
He was ordered to pay costs of £85.
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