A TEENAGER who drove without a licence and while three times over the limit was ordered to do unpaid work this week.

Ross McAlpine, 18, appeared for sentencing at Dunfermline Sheriff Court on Wednesday after earlier admitting that on April 8 this year, he drove on Chapel Street, Cowdenbeath, without due care and attention or without reasonable consideration for others using the roads when he failed to maintain proper control of the car and collided with four cars, causing damage to them.

He also, on Chapel Street and elsewhere, drove after consuming alcohol when there was 65 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath when the prescribed limit is 22 microgrammes.

He also admitted driving without a licence or without insurance.

Solicitor, Rosni Joshi, said her client, had made a "foolish decision".

She added: "Everything was all his fault. He really appears to appreciate how stupid a decision he made on the date in question and in particular how that will have an impact on him.

"He accepts it is perhaps fortunate no one was injured on the night in question. His father's insurance paid out to the owners of the vehicles that were damaged."

Sheriff Alison McKay said the outcome could have been worse.

"The position here is when you drove your father's car, you were three times over the limit," she said.

"You didn't have a licence or insurance so you shouldn't have been driving at all.

"Fortunately your father was insured and the owners of the vehicles will not have had long lasting affects as a result of your conduct."

She placed McAlpine on a community payback order requiring him to do 100 hours of unpaid work within three months and banned him from driving for 18 months.