A motorist who drove on the busy A49 in Shrewsbury after taking cocaine has been handed a driving ban.
Joe Stratton, aged 35, drove a Skoda Octavia near Bayston Hill on December 13 last year.
A drugs test found he had 153 micrograms of benzoylecgonine, a by-product of cocaine, per litre of blood in his system. The legal limit, accounting for the possibility of accidental exposure, is 50mcg.
Stratton, of Watling Street South, Church Stretton, pleaded guilty at Telford Magistrates Court to driving with a proportion of a controlled drug above the legally specified limit.
Magistrates banned Stretton from driving for 12 month and fined him £120.
Stratton was also ordered to pay £85 in prosecution costs and a £48 victim surcharge, bringing his total court bill to £253.
