Drug-driver caught at 97mph on A9 on Black Isle
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Police stopped a 22-year-old driver twice within a few weeks at the same spot and on both occasions he had the same amount of drugs in his system.
Lewis Brady, of Woodside Crescent, Inverness was in his Ford Fiesta travelling at 97mph in a 70mph zone on the A9 at Arpafeelie on the Black Isle when officers stopped him on January 26 last year.
Fiscal depute Naomi Duffy-Welsh told Sheriff Robert Frazer: “They detected a smell of cannabis and the reading was 9mcgs.”
The safe driving limit is 2mcgs.
The prosecutor then told the court that on February 15, Brady was again stopped at the same place and his reading was again 9mcgs.
Defence solicitor Lynsey Barber said: “He is now completely abstinent.”
Brady admitted two charges of drug-driving and one of speeding.
He was fined £210, banned from driving for two years and ordered to carry out 150 hours of unpaid community work.
The sheriff told him: “What makes this more serious is that it was not once but twice you were stopped by police in a matter of weeks on the same stretch of road.”
