A JAGUAR driver has been banned from the roads after he was pulled over with two flat tyres on a main road in Herefordshire.
David Cooke admitted drug-driving when he appeared before magistrates in Hereford on January 13.
Prosecutor Shafquat Reaz said police had spotted Cooke driving a black Jaguar X-Type with two flat tyres on the A465 at Wormbridge at around midnight on August 29.
Cooke was pulled over and was arrested after failing a roadside drug test. An evidential blood test in custody revealed he had 6.3 microgrammes of cannabis metabolite delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol per litre of blood. The legal limit is two.
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Speaking on his own behalf, 43-year-old Cooke said he smokes cannabis at night, but that he had not smoked it on that day.
"I was going to pick my daughter up," Cooke, of Ewyas Harold, said.
"I know it is not an excuse, but I thought 24 hours after consuming it I would be fine. I really did not think it would still be in my blood.
"That night I got two flat tyres and I would have pulled over into the layby that the police were in if they had not been parked there. I was doing 20 miles an hour with my hazard warning lights on."
Cooke, who is a full-time carer for a family member, was disqualified from driving for 12 months and fined £120. He must also pay costs of £135 and a £34 victim surcharge.
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