A PETROL station attendant contacted police because a man who filled up at 7am appeared to be drunk.

Blackburn magistrates heard that shortly after police received a report that the same car had crashed into a hedge and they arrested Sajid Hussain at the scene in Clitheroe.

Hussain, 35, of Richmond Hill Street, Accrington, pleaded guilty to failing to provide a specimen for analysis.

He was made subject to community supervision for 12 months with a condition he completes the drink impaired driver programme, banned for three years and ordered to pay £150 costs.

Catherine Allan, prosecuting, said the petrol station worker said Hussain struggled to put the petrol into his car and then staggered into the shop.

When police arrested him his eyes were glazed and he was struggling to focus.