Moment drink-driver is caught crashing car by his OWN dashcam - which then also records him telling friend: 'I've had too much to drink and I'll lose my job'

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By LES ROOPANARINE

Published: 11:16 EDT, 3 April 2025 | Updated: 11:17 EDT, 3 April 2025

A drunk operator who planned to fake the theft of his car aft ploughing the conveyance done a roadside hedge has been caught retired by footage from his ain dashcam.

Charlie Taylor, 22, mislaid power of his Mitsubishi Shogun past period connected the A1, adjacent the  Cambridgeshire colony of Brampton. 

Video footage showed the car veering disconnected the roadworthy earlier barreling done a hedgerow and into a field.

Taylor, who was returning location from a nighttime of drinking, continued to thrust done the tract earlier calling a person to subordinate what had happened and however helium planned to woody with it.

'You request to telephone the police,' urged the pistillate connected the different extremity of the line.

'No, I've had excessively overmuch to drink, I can't telephone the police,' replied Taylor, who was much than 2 times supra the ineligible limit. 

'I've had excessively overmuch to portion and I'll suffer my job.'

Taylor, from Bourne successful Lincolnshire, asked the person to prime him up and said helium would study the conveyance arsenic stolen and 'park it into a tree'.

Dashcam footage showed that Charlie Taylor mislaid power of his Mitsubishi Shogun car, veering disconnected the roadworthy earlier barreling done a hedgerow and into a field, wherever helium continued driving

Cracks are seen crossed the vehicle's windscreen arsenic it passes done a heavy hedgerow 

Taylor pleaded blameworthy to portion driving and utilizing a conveyance without an MOT. He was disqualified from driving for a twelvemonth and ordered to wage a £480 fine

But his program unravelled erstwhile a subordinate of the nationalist spotted the car and, mistakenly believing it to beryllium a hare courser, contacted the police.

Following the incident, which occurred astatine 8.15am connected March 2, Taylor was apprehended by officers from Cambridgeshire Police's agrarian transgression enactment team. 

A roadside enactment trial of 81, much than doubly the ineligible limit in England, Wales and Northern Ireland of 35 micrograms per 100 millilitres of breath, was followed by an evidential illustration of 53 erstwhile Taylor was successful custody.

In a proceeding at Cambridge magistrates' tribunal past Thursday, helium pleaded blameworthy to portion driving and utilizing a conveyance without an MOT.

He was disqualified from driving for a twelvemonth and ordered to wage a £480 fine.

'This lawsuit highlights the reckless decisions radical marque nether the influence,' said PC Sam Thompson of the agrarian transgression enactment team.

'Not lone did Taylor enactment his and others lives astatine risk, but helium was readying to screen it up with a brazen lie.

'Thankfully, nary 1 was hurt, but the result could person been overmuch worse.'

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