A WOMAN caught behind the wheel while more than 15 times the drug-drive limit has been banned from the roads.
Joanne Curbishley, of Brakeley Lane, Little Leigh, was travelling along the A5300 Knowsley Expressway on July 4 when she was caught last year.
A subsequent blood test revealed the 46-year-old had 765µg/L of Benzoylecgonine, a breakdown product of cocaine, in her system.
The legal limit for this is 50µg/L.
Curbishley pleaded guilty to drug-driving on April 2 and returned to Chester Magistrates Court on May 1 for sentencing.
The bench disqualified her from driving for 30 months and fined her £160.
The court heard her guilty plea was taken into account but, while she was given full credit for her admission, the offence passed the community threshold and a band D fine was imposed.
The driving ban started from April 2 this year, the date Curbishley was handed an interim disqualification.
She was also ordered to pay court costs of £85 and a £72 surcharge.
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