{"id":16104,"date":"2014-08-25T22:40:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T21:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=16104"},"modified":"2014-08-25T22:40:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T21:40:30","slug":"there-is-no-legal-number-of-pints-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=16104","title":{"rendered":"There Is No &#8220;Legal&#8221; Number Of Pints: III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not so much a \u201ctwo pinter\u201d, as a kegmeister this time. <a title=\"Doctor was more than three times the legal driving limit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.northdevongazette.co.uk\/news\/doctor_was_more_than_three_times_the_legal_driving_limit_1_3738671\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicholas Ward, 47, was found to be three and a half times<\/a> over the limit after he had crashed his car. Ward, a consultant doctor, was avoiding police and refusing medical treatment in an attempt to escape detection.<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/299;background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Drink Driving\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/drink_driving5.jpg\" alt=\"Drink Driving\" width=\"524\" height=\"299\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ward was banned for nearly three years, fined \u00a31,000, and given 200 hours of community service. Frighteningly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Michael Oerton, defending, said Ward had \u2018self imposed\u2019 a disqualification on himself since the collision and now cycled to work.<\/p>\n<p>He said the collision was a \u2018wake up call\u2019 and he had now sought medical help for his alcohol problems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let\u2019s hope this \u201chelp\u201d ensures he doesn\u2019t ride his bicycle whilst put of his skull on booze. After all, not having to worry about losing your licence anymore does open up possibilities for a few extra snifters now and then, doesn\u2019t it? Cyclists already manage to go under the radar on this and many other matters which motorists don\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not so much a \u201ctwo pinter\u201d, as a kegmeister this time. Nicholas Ward, 47, was found to be three and a half times over the limit after he had crashed his car. Ward, a consultant doctor, was avoiding police and refusing medical treatment in an attempt to escape detection. Ward was banned for nearly three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}