Agent, 20, reports herself to police for drink-driving

A 20 year old estate agent who admitted being four times over the drink driving limit has been fined and banned from getting behind the wheel.

Lauren Monaghan, 20, crashed her car into a parked vehicle just feet from her home in Scotland - then she telephoned police to admit what she had done.

Officers arrived and a breathalyser test showed she had 99 microgrammes of alcohol in every 100 millilitres — four and half times over the legal limit of 22.

Local media in Falkirk report Monaghan’s defence solicitor Simon Hutchison saying: "It's clear this was a really stupid one-off on her part. She's very, very upset and annoyed at her behaviour and she shows a great deal of remorse …

" … She has just signed a contract to become self-employed in a local estate agency business. Her work will be commission-based, selling houses.

"She accepts that her main difficulty will be that now she won't have a licence, she'll have to spend a great deal of money on taxis and things. That will impact on the profits she makes."

Monaghan was fined £1,000 fine and disqualified from driving for 16 months.

Sheriff Christopher Shead told her: There won't be many people who've gone to the trouble of reporting themselves to the police in these circumstances.

"That is a very significant feature of this case. It reflects well on you, if I may respectfully say so."

You can see the local media report here.