A 24-year-old Douglas man has been jailed for 14 days after crashing his car while drink driving.

Carl Anthony Conroy, of Fairways Drive, failed a breathalyser test with a reading of 90 - the legal limit is 35 - on December 6.

Deputy High Bailiff Jayne Hughes said while passing sentence: ’I bear in mind the level of reading, that a road traffic accident occurred and the time of year.

’A message has to go out to people like you. It is well publicised by the police of the consequences for people who choose to drink and drive.

’I am satisfied the custody threshold has been passed and equally satisfied there are no grounds to suspend the sentence. I hope this brings it home to you.’

Conroy was also banned from driving for three years and ordered to pay £125 prosecution costs.

Prosecutor Barry Swain told the court how, at 12.20am, police were called to an accident on the Old Castletown Road at Kewaigue.

When officers arrived Conroy’s Volkswagen Golf was blocking the road. Family members were with the vehicle and said that Conroy had been taken home.

Police attended his address and Conroy confessed he had been drinking before driving.

He was arrested and failed the subsequent breathalyser test.

In an interview he told police he had been drinking in Douglas and foolishly decided to drive home. He said he clipped the kerb and crashed.

Defence advocate Paul Glover said: ’Mr Conroy was out after work with some work colleagues. He informs me he had four or five pints of lager followed by some shorts of whisky. He called a taxi but when it didn’t come he foolishly decided to drive home. He accepts he’s the person to blame for the situation.’

Mr Glover went on to say that Conroy had no previous convictions and that his employer was standing by him.

The advocate asked that the offence be dealt with by way of a financial penalty and said that Conroy could pay £250 per month.

’He accepts he should have known better,’ said Mr Glover. ’He is not someone who will be back before the court.’

Mrs Hughes told Conroy: ’I give you credit for your guilty plea and you were a man of no previous convictions. Yet you are a man who gave yourself permission to drive in the early hours while intoxicated.’