A DRIVER asked her name by police after a road smash told officers she was Priscilla Presley, a court was told.

Burnley magistrates heard how depressed former medical secretary Lynn Stevens, 55, was abusive and aggressive and had to lean on a wall.

She was later found to be more than two-and-a half times the legal limit.

Stevens, care of Lloyd Close, Nelson, admitted driving with excess alcohol. She was fined £150, banned for 18 months and must pay £55 costs.

Tom Snape, prosecuting, told the court a man was standing in his front room when a Rover car hit his van parked outside.

He went to the bottom of the road where the damaged Rover was, knocked on the window and pointed out the defendant, who was in the driver's seat, had just hit his vehicle.

Police were called and the defendant told them her name was Priscilla Presley.

Mr Snape said Stevens provided two samples and the lower of the two tests showed 96 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35.

John Greenwood, defending, said Stevens was shocked, ashamed and upset to be in court. She had been receiving treatment for depression since 1987, took sleeping tablets and was on medication for other conditions.

Mr Greenwood said Stevens was either an alcoholic or verging on being an alcoholic and had sought help from Alcoholics Anonymous.

In November 2001, the defendant's son-in-law had been killed in a road accident while in the armed forces, leaving Stevens' daughter a widow at 32 with two young children.

She had given her daughter tremendous support but that had simply added to her problems. Stevens, who could not say how the accident occurred, had gone to collect her mother from hospital. She was perhaps so ill, she didn't really deal with things in a rational way.