A drink driver who abandoned her vehicle in a busy Cambridge street had to be told 'blow not suck' when taking a breathalser test. 

Tracey Campbell was being followed by a police car on Thoday Street at about 10.30pm on 24 January when she suddenly stopped her Peugeot 207 and got out of the driver’s side.

Officers went to speak to her and could smell alcohol on her breath. She blew 160 at the roadside, more than four times the legal limit of 35 microgrammes per 100 millilitres of breath. She went on to give an evidential reading of 120 in custody.

At Huntingdon Magistrates’ Court on Friday (8 March), Campbell, 52, of Ring Fort Road, Cambridge, was disqualified from driving for two years and eight months having pleaded guilty to drink driving.

She was also given an 18-month community order and must carry out 120 hours of unpaid work.

PC Joe Woolf, who investigated, said: “Although it is over a twenty-year period, Campbell has been convicted of drink driving on three previous occasions, there is absolutely no excuse for drink driving.

“She was considerably over the limit, and it was lucky she didn’t do herself or other road users any serious harm.”

The force operates a dedicated, confidential hotline, 0800 032 0845, which is available 24/7 and provides the public with the chance to provide information about anyone they think may be driving under the influence of drink or drugs.