A drink-driver was nearly twice over the limit when she crashed her car into a lamppost and smashed through a fence after a night out at a club.

Roxanne Benn, 24, fled the scene after the crash as she had been downing shots of Jagermeister and vodka lemonades earlier that evening.

Benn had been drinking with friends at a nightspot when she got behind the wheel of her black BMV.

The vehicle was left in a crumpled wreck when she careered off the road just after 1am in Worthing, West Sussex, last month - just over a mile from her home.

After the crash on July 16, cops traced the car left in a crumpled mess to Benn's home on the outskirts of the seaside town.

Despite drinking at a nightclub in the town, she still thought she was fine to drive home with some of her friends in the vehicle.

Initially she denied being the driver but was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving and was taken outside the house where she was abusive to the officers, police said.

At the station she tested 65 microgrammes (mcg) of alcohol per 100 millilitres (ml) of breath. The legal limit is 35mcg of alcohol per 100ml of breath.

Benn then admitted she was the driver and told police she drank two shots of Jagermeister plus three vodka lemonades on her night out, but claimed she “panicked” when she crashed the vehicle.

She pleaded guilty to drink-driving, failing to stop at the scene of a road traffic accident and failing to report a road traffic accident at Worthing Magistrates’ Court [on Tuesday August 2].

Benn, who works as a trades painter, was banned from driving for 18 months.

The court also ordered her to do 80 hours of unpaid work and pay £85 court costs as well as a £114 victim surcharge.

PC Ana Wellfare, a Sussex Police Roads Policing Unit officer, slammed Benn and said it was only luck that stopped her from seriously injuring those in her car, a pedestrian or another motorist.

She said: "Benn was clearly in no fit state to drive her vehicle, and put her own safety as well as the safety of her passengers and other road users at great risk.

"She is lucky that no one was seriously injured. Alcohol seriously impairs a person’s ability to drive safely, and there are no excuses for drink-driving."

PC Wellfare added: "This case demonstrates our determination to catch offenders, we are pleased that another drink-driver has been taken off our roads to prevent causing danger to herself and anyone else."

Source: SWNS