A DRUG-DRIVER has been banned from the roads after she was caught driving without insurance while carrying out an errand for her mother.

Ciara Gibson entered a guilty plea to magistrates in Hereford.

The 21-year-old had been driving her mother's blue Ford Fiesta in Hereford's Kingsway when she was spotted and pulled over by police for an insurance matter at 4.15pm on December 2, prosecutor Mark Hambling said.

She admitted she had smoked cannabis the night before and was arrested after failing a roadside drug test.

A blood sample revealed she had 10 microgrammes of cannabis metabolite delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol per litre of blood. The legal limit is two.

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Chris Read, for Gibson, said it was a classic matter of not letting a good deed go unpunished.

"She was at her mother's house that day and had no intention of driving anywhere," Mr Read said.

"But her mum phoned and said she was having a problem and was running late and asked her to go and run an errand for her. She got in her mother's car and drove to carry out the errand and was on her way home when the car flashed up on the police computer as having a problem with insurance.

"She and her mother had believed that she was insured as she had insurance on her own car and her mother's car was insured, but it turns out they were wrong. The insurance matter was dealt with separately, and she was fined £300 for that."

Gibson, of Kingsway, Hereford, was fined £138 and disqualified from driving for 12 months. She must also pay costs of £135 and a £34 victim surcharge.