A FARNHAM man caught driving without insurance while twice the legal drink drive limit has been fined £1,159 and disqualified from driving for 20 months.

Wayne Page, 37, of Weavers Gardens, was named and shamed during the first week of Surrey Police’s Christmas crackdown on drink and drug driving after being pulled over in Station Hill, Wrecclesham, on December 2.

He subsequently appeared at Guildford Magistrates Court on December 16, where he pleaded guilty to charges of driving above the prescribed limit and driving without insurance.

The court heard Mr Page was arrested after providing a positive breath test reading of 78 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, exceeding the legal limit of 35mg.

Magistrates disqualified him from holding or obtaining a driving licence for 20 months, with the option to reduce this to 15 months by completing a government-approved course.

Mr Page was also ordered to pay a £440 fine for each offence as well as a £44 victim surcharge, £85 in costs to the Crown Prosecution Service and a £150 criminal courts charge.

Surrey Police, jointly with Sussex Police and the Sussex Safer Roads Partnership, Drive Smart in Surrey and the independent charity Crimestoppers launched its crackdown on drink or drug-driving related offences at the beginning of December.

Over the following four weeks, 63 people have been proactively named after being charged as part of the campaign named Operation Dragonfly.

Another of those caught, Holly Brown, 21, of Aspen Grove, Tongham, has also been disqualified from driving after she crashed her car into a pedestrian island in Guildford while twice the drink drive limit.

Miss Brown appeared at Guildford Magistrates Court on December 22 and pleaded guilty to the charge of drink driving.

She was disqualified from driving for 20 months, fined £200 and ordered to pay a criminal courts charge of £150, victim surcharge of £20, and court costs of £87.

Text 65999 to provide details of suspected drink or drug drivers or call 999 if you know someone is driving whileover the prescribed limit or after taking drugs. Alternatively call the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.