Lorry driver whose vehicle collided with traffic lights on the A27 is jailed for drink driving
A LORRY driver has been sentenced to eight weeks in prison for drink driving as a tweet from Hampshire police reported he was three-and-a-half times over limit.
Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court confirmed that Aleksandrs Artemjevs, 40, from Latvia has been disqualified from driving for 31 months and 28 days and will have to pay a victim surcharge of £156.
Artemjevs was sentenced on December 5.
The police tweet stated: ‘Last Thursday (December 3) we were called to an incident where an HGV has left the road. The driver was 3.5 times the drink drive limit. Portsmouth magistrates have sentenced the 40-year-old Latvian driver to eight weeks in prison.’
Police were called at about 5pm after Artemjevs’s lorry ‘left the road and collided with a fence and traffic lights while travelling north on the A27 between the Segensworth roundabout and junction 9 of the M27’.
A statement from Hampshire Constabulary at the time confirmed the driver ‘was charged with driving a vehicle when alcohol above the limit’.
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