Royal Guard soldier crashed pal's car in Scots street whilst more than four times over drink drive limit

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A Royal Guard soldier crashed a pal’s car into another vehicle in a Stirling street while more than four times over the drink-drive limit.Private in the Royal Regiment of Scotland, Lewis Talbot, based at HM Queen’s Guard, Ballater, had been visiting a friend in Stirling during time off when the incident occurred on the afternoon of July 21 this year.When he appeared at Stirling Sheriff Court last Wednesday this week the 24-year-old admitted charges of driving a car without the consent of its owner, driving without insurance, driving without a licence, failing to give details following a collision, and driving while the proportion of alcohol in his breath was 98mg in 100ml.

The limit being 22mg.Fiscal depute Sean Iles told the court that Talbot’s friend Sean Coyle had left the car keys in a bedroom at an address in Cornton’s Westwood Crescent.At 4.45pm that day a witness within a nearby Johnston Avenue address heard “a loud bang” and observed a red Ford Fiesta had crashed into the rear of a red Citroen.Talbot was in the driver’s seat of the Fiesta and there were no others within the vehicle.Talbot got out of the car and the witness spoke to the accused for a few minutes.

He then left Johnston Avenue.Click here for more news and sport from the Stirling area.Police attended and noticed there had been a collison.

They traced the accused to the Westwood Crescent address.Talbot answered the door, and without any prompting, said: ‘It was me who crashed the car.