Mother gets ban and fine at Inverness Sheriff Court for drug driving offence
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AN anxious mother overtook a police vehicle as she rushed home to be with her unwell teenage son.
Inverness Sheriff Court heard officers were concerned about Catriona MacLean’s driving when she went round a bend on the wrong side of the road.
Fiscal depute Karen Poke said MacLean (39) of Jenkins Park, Fort Augustus, was stopped near Invermoriston on November 28, 2020 and a drug screen proved positive for cocaine.
MacLean admitted driving while under the influence of drugs. Her reading of 706mcgs of a cocaine metabolite was 14 times the legal limit for safe driving.
Solicitor Roger Webb said: “Last year was not a good one for her. She lost two relatives to Covid prior to this and was suffering from depression.”
Sheriff David Sutherland fined her £420 and banned her from driving for a year.
