A gardener has been banned from driving after he fell off his scooter as he drove home from a beer festival.
Stuart Allen told police he had drunk two pints of beer at the festival and thought he was "okay to drive".
But the 49-year-old, of Oaktree Close, Exmouth, "fell off his bike and the police got involved", said prosecutor Sonia Croft.
Allen admitted being nearly twice over the legal drink drive limit one afternoon in April when he came off his black moped on a main road in Exmouth.
Exeter magistrates heard he was "reliant on his scooter to get out to the gardens" he looks after.
Allen, who has no previous convictions, was fined a total of £205 and banned from the roads for 16 months.
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