20-year-old told police 'I jumped in a gorse bush'
A Peel man is awaiting sentencing after crashing his van on Marine Drive whilst drunk.
Alistair Mark Flint, of Birch Drive, was found by police covered in scratches which were bleeding.
The 20-year-old told officers, on 26 September last year, that he’d ‘jumped in a gorse bush’.
At Douglas Courthouse this week the court was told emergency services were called to the scene, at 2.15am, after reports that a Ford Transit van was hanging over a small cliff.
Flint was located nearby - he was unsteady on his feet and, after being treated by paramedics, failed a roadside breath test.
Subsequent tests, carried out at Police Headquarters, showed he was more than double the legal limit.
He admitted drink driving, having no driving licence and no insurance – his provisional licence had expired in July and the van belonged to his grandfather.
Flint, who has breached the terms of a suspended sentence handed down by the Court of General Gaol Delivery in 2021, will appear before that court on Friday; he’s been bailed until that date.
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