A dishonest drink driver was caught fleeing the scene of an accident by her own dash cam.
Caroline Jeffery, 45, initially told police that a mystery man had offered to drive home from Wetherspoons before crashing into street furniture and disappeared into the moonlight.
Unfortunately for her, dash cam footage captured the moment she fled from the driver's seat after drunkenly piling her white Volkswagen Golf into a set of traffic lights.
CCTV footage from a nearby shop also placed the warehouse worker behind the wheel at the moment of the smash.
Jeffery, of Rochester Way, Crowborough, provided a positive roadside breath test and was arrested shortly after the collision. A subsequent evidential breath test revealed that Jeffery had 66 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of her breath, the legal limit being 35 microgrammes.
Jeffery pleaded guilty to drink driving during a hearing at Worthing Magistrates' Court on Thursday, 14th March 2019.
She was disqualified from driving for 18 months, fined £530, ordered to pay £200 costs and a £53 victim surcharge.
A spokesman for Sussex Police said: "Caroline Jeffery claimed an unknown man who she met at the local Wetherspoons offered to drive her home from the pub and then ran from the scene following the collision.
"However, footage from her dash cam clearly shows her exiting the driver's side of her vehicle. Further evidence of this is shown by CCTV from a local shop, which also captured the crash.
"The dash cam and CCTV were produced as evidence at Worthing Magistrates' Court and Jeffery admitted the offence."
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