A 30-YEAR-OLD man who set off to drive home after a row with his girlfriend crashed his car into a wall near a Rishton restaurant.
Blackburn magistrates heard Daniel Curwen ran off, abandoning his car.
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But police were able to identify him from a mobile phone he left in the car and arrested him at his Great Harwood home. He later gave a blood alcohol reading nearly three times the legal limit.
Curwen, of Lomax Street, Great Harwood, pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol, failing to stop after a road accident and failing to report an accident. He was remanded on bail until June 15 for the preparation of a pre-sentence report.
Imran Hussain, defending, said his client accepted he had made a “very foolish” decision to drive home after a row with his girlfriend which would have far reaching consequences for him.
“He is in the second year of a criminology degree course and his ambition was to join the probation service,” said Mr Hussain.
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