36-year-old's poor driving reported by two members of public
A Jurby woman has been banned from the road for two years after taking too much prescription medication before getting behind the wheel.
Two members of the public reported that Stephanie Ann Brown, of The Threshold, was driving ‘erratically’ on 26 February.
When police stopped the 36-year-old, on the Old Castletown Road at 3pm, she blamed the fact her children were arguing.
After failing a drug wipe test Brown told officers she’d smoked cannabis the night before; she was arrested and taken to Police Headquarters.
Subsequent blood tests showed she was under the limit for cannabis but was over the limit for the prescription medication diazepam.
Brown later denied a charge of driving over the limit for controlled drugs and had been due to stand trial but changed her plea to guilty at Douglas Courthouse.
During sentencing Brown’s advocate told the court her client had previously been prescribed the drug and she’d taken it the night before to help her sleep.
“She didn’t feel the effects of the diazepam the following day,” she added.
Fining her £1200, and ordering her to pay prosecution costs of £500, Deputy High Bailiff Rachael Braidwood told her she’d been ‘significantly over the limit’.
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