A DRINK-DRIVER smashed into a lamp-post when he was almost four times over the limit.

Families in Cardenden were wakened in the early hours of the morning when local man Jordan Melville got behind the wheel after a night out.

He was so drunk he could not remember anything about it later.

Jordan Melville, 27, of Craigside Road, Cardenden, appeared at Dunfermline Sheriff Court.

He admitted that on December 3, on the B981 Cardenden Road, he drove a car after consuming excess alcohol. His reading was 85 micogrammes of alcohol in 100 milligrammes of breath.

Depute fiscal Azrah Yousaf said that at 2am, residents heard a loud noise and they then saw a car had collided with a lamp-post causing extensive damage.

“The accused was seen in the driver’s seat and the engine was being revved up. It was clear he was trying to drive it away,” she went on.

“He then got out of the car and was acting in a strange manner. Police were called and the officers could smell alcohol from him and he was slurring his speech.

“He said he wasn’t driving his car he had only been moving it.”

Defence solicitor Peter Robertson said: “The background was he had been on a night out in Kirkcaldy.

“He had been driven home by his brother. This occurred after he’d been brought home and he can’t remember anything else about it.”

Sheriff Pino di Emidio fined Melville £600 and banned him from driving for 16 months.