The M27 (stock image)
JAGUAR driver caused a crash while drink-driving on a Hampshire motorway.
Daniel Jonathon Matthews was involved in a crash with a Honda Civic on the M27 near Southampton on February 23.
The 35-year-old did not stop at the scene.
When he was later breathalysed by police, he had 89 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.
The legal limit is 35 microgrammes of alcohol.
Appearing at Southampton Magistrates’ Court, Matthews, of Driftwood Gardens, Portsmouth, pleaded guilty to drink-driving and failing to stop.
He was banned from driving for three years and ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work.
Matthews was also ordered to pay £85 court costs and an £85 victim surcharge.
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