A 19-year-old caught drug-driving after he crashed his car on the M6 has been ordered to serve an 18-month ban.
Tyler Martin was arrested after police were called to the scene of a one-vehicle collision on the southbound carriageway, two miles south of Penrith, at around 10.45pm on July 23 last year.
An officer found Martin’s Ford Fiesta on a grass verge. It was established he had been driving towards the Blackpool area with a smell of cannabis detected.
Martin provided a positive roadside drug wipe test, was arrested and when a blood specimen was scrutinised it showed he was over the legal driving limit for the main psychoactive substance of the class B drug.
In addition, two pink tablets — a banned class A drug with hallucinogenic effects — were found to have been secreted within clothing inside a bag.
Martin appeared at Carlisle Magistrates’ Court where he had pleaded guilty to drug-driving part-way through a trial having initially denied the offence. He also admitted possessing the class A substance 2C-B.
Martin, of Cardowan Road, Glasgow, was handed an 18-month driving ban which he had already started serving having been given an interim disqualification in April. He was also made subject to a 12-month community order and must complete 180 hours’ unpaid work.
