Convicted Of Drunk Driving - On A Mobility Scooter.

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Eight policemen in three police cars have made an arrest of a man driving after consuming three times the legal drink driving limit. The man was pulled over as he made his way home from a local pub, on his mobility scooter.

The 62 year old male was travelling at around 4mph on the pavement close to his home in Chesterfield. He was surrounded by the police men when he failed to stop, with one police man taking the vehicles keys after another had driven onto the pavement in an effort to stop the pensioner in his tracks.

Eamonn Donohoe uses the mobility scooter as he suffers from blocked arteries in his lower legs. He was pulled over after spending the evening playing dominoes with friends at his local pub. He had consumed six or seven pints.

Mr Donohue, who was quite shaken up after the incident commented "I can't believe how they treated me - anybody would think that I was a bank robber or a member of Al-Qaeda". He was subsequently jailed for 12 hours, fingerprinted and a DNA sample taken.

Mr Donohoe went on to say "I was travelling at three and a half miles per hour. They must have known, like I did, that the rules of the road don't apply when you're riding a mobility scooter down the pavement. It didn't seem to matter one jot. I wasn't doing anything wrong so I didn't stop at first because I wanted to get home."

Mr Donohoe was found to be three times over the legal UK drink driving limit after he failed a roadside breath test. He has been banned from driving; however he has not been banned from driving his mobility scooter as it is not actually classed as car.

There have recently been several publicised drink driving cases, the most high profile being Welsh rugby star Andy Powell, convicted after driving a golf buggy down the motorway, while a milkman was recently convicted for being drunk whilst driving a milk float.

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