A man who crashed his car on Cardigan bypass on his way home from working away drank vodka and coke as he drove along the A487 road between Aberystwyth and Cardigan, a court was told.

In the accident at 7.15pm on December 18 Neil Russell Wilkinson was trapped in his Toyota car and had to be released before being taken to Glangwili Hospital.

Later a blood specimen showed he had 131 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood – the legal limit is 80.

This story was related by Crown prosecutor Susan Crossley when 41-year-old Wilkinson, a banksman for a piling company, of 23 Felinban, Cardigan, who was represented by Stephen Welch, pleaded guilty to a charge of driving with excess alcohol.

He told police that on his journey home he stopped in Aberystwyth where he drank three pints of Guinness and on the way to Cardigan drank vodka with coke.

Mr. Welch said: "It was his last day at work and he celebrated, but should have waited until he got home."

Wilkinson, who was convicted of a drink/drive offence in 2004, was fined £500 with £50 costs and £15 government surcharge and disqualified from driving for three and a half years.