drug driver was still eight times over the legal limit the day after he'd taken cocaine.Ahmad Asghar, 19, had taken the Class A drug at a party one evening in January 2021 and had slept "most of the following day".
However, Asghar was stopped in Newcastle the next day, when he woke up and decided to get behind the wheel of his vehicle in order to get some food, reports Chronicle Live.A court heard how he failed a road side drug swipe and later delivered a reading of 439 micrograms of benzoylecgonine, a product included within cocaine, per litre of blood when the legal limit is 50.Asghar has now been prohibited from driving for 16 months after he pleaded guilty to one count of driving while above the specified drug limit.
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