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A man who caused an accident after riding his scooter while more than two-and-a-half times the legal alcohol limit was told he could have been sent to prison.
George Mbuthia was instead ordered to carry out 110 hours of community service and has been banned from the roads for 27 months.
The Magistrate's Court heard that Mbuthia (52) rode his scooter into the back of a car in Mount Bingham just after midnight.
He told police he had he had only had one whisky and Coke, but St Peter Centenier Joao Camara said: “He failed to give a breath sample.
"He smelt strongly of intoxicant and his speech was slurred.”
A specimen taken at police headquarters showed he had 94 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal maximum to drive is 35 micrograms.
Mbuthia’s vehicle did not display an insurance disc and he did not have a document showing it has been inspected for safety. He was fined £150 for each offence.
Assistant Magistrate Adam Clarke said that the high alcohol level could merit a prison sentence, but accepted that he had pleaded guilty and was deemed at low risk of reoffending.
He told him: “Driving with excess alcohol is an incredibly dangerous thing to do and an incredibly selfish one.
"It is only through good fortune that innocent people were not injured.”
He ordered Mbuthia to retake the driving test after the ban has elapsed.
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