A drunk driver trapped after overturning his car cracked open another can of beer while he waited for emergency crews to rescue him.
Paul Sneddon, 47, pleaded guilty to careless driving and drunken driving after being nearly three times over the legal alcohol limit in a district court in the city of Palmerston North in New Zealand.
Police found Sneddon, a former baker, trapped in his overturned Ford on June 1, drinking a can of beer after he failed to take a corner properly and crashed through a wooden barrier, flipping his vehicle.
His lawyer Peter Young said that when Paul Sneddon found he could not open the doors, “he had nothing else to do at that point, so he had another beer.”
When asked by police how much he had consumed, Paul Sneddon replied: “Plenty, I’ve been drinking for four days straight.”
He said he went on a drinking binge after losing his job at a bakery on the same day that he heard his father was diagnosed with prostate cancer.
The court fined him 635 euros and disqualified him from driving for 10 months.
Source: www.reuters.com
