A DRINK-DRIVER who was seen swerving across the road with no headlights on has been banned from driving for 18 months and fined £800.

Sheriff Derek Reekie told Craig Daly, 43, of Cocklaw Street, Kelty at Dunfermline Sheriff Court last week: “This was extremely dangerous. You couldn’t drive in a straight line, had no headlights and the alcohol reading is a high one.”

He admitted that on November 26, in Cocklaw Street, he drove a car with excess alcohol. His reading was 85 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, the legal limit being 22 microgrammes.

He also admitted that on the same day, on the B917 between Cowdenbeath and Kelty, then in Oakfield Street and Cocklaw Street, Kelty, he drove a car carelessly in hours of darkness when his headlights were not on, swerved across the carriageway and collided with a kerb.

Depute fiscal Bruce McCrossan said: “At 6.50pm on a Sunday evening, witnesses were travelling in a car on the B917 between Cowdenbeath and Kelty and were behind a Vauxhall Corsa being driven by the accused.

“They saw he had no lights on, was crossing over the centre of the road and he struck the nearside kerb.

“This gave the witnesses concern about the state of the driver.

“The accused came to a stop at a junction. The witnesses approached the driver at this point. They could smell alcohol from him and believed him to be intoxicated.”

Defence solicitor Alexander Flett said his client had “sought solace in alcohol” after recent problems in his personal life.