A 34-YEAR-OLD man narrowly escaped a jail sentence after pleading guilty to two offences of driving a tipper lorry with excess alcohol and one of driving while disqualified.
Blackburn magistrates heard that Carlos Joseph Sillers Price, of Fern Hill Caravan Site, Bury, had two previous convictions for driving with excess alcohol, two for failing to provide a specimen and three for driving while disqualified.
He pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol, while disqualified and without insurance on Haslingden Road, Blackburn, on January 16 and with excess alcohol in Dill Hall Lane, Church, on April 5. On both occasions he was driving a tipper lorry.
He was made subject to a community rehabilitation order for 12 months and disqualified from driving for three years.
The bench chairman said if there was any breach of the order Price would go to prison.
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