A tipper truck driver caused more than £23,000 worth of structural damage smashing into a house after downing a huge quantity of alcohol and cocaine.
Ross Boag cracked the house wall from top to bottom after downing two bottles of Buckfast, a bottle of Mad Dog and snorting 11 grams of cocaine.
Boag – who admitted having the equivalent of 33 units of alcohol – shunted the tipper lorry so hard into another vehicle that it flew into the family home.
The 24-year-old – who also admitted hiring an excavator and tools and selling them on for drug money – was jailed for 14 months at Perth Sheriff Court. He was banned from driving for two years.
Sheriff Lindsay Foulis said: “One might be tempted to say that by taking two bottles of Buckfast, a bottle of Mad Dog and 11 grams of cocaine your recollection of what happened might be somewhat hazy.
“The dangerous driving is a significant matter and one can only estimate the speed at which you were going in light of the damage which was caused. You must have been going at some speed.
You struck a vehicle, causing that vehicle to strike the property. He hits one car, then hits another with such force that it strikes the property with such force that it causes a crack to the wall and window frame.
“It ploughs into the property and causes at least £23,000 worth of damage. He must have been travelling at very high speed for that amount of damage to be caused.”
Boag, 24, from Perth, admitted driving dangerously and at speed before hitting a Volkswagen Transporter and shunting it into a Volvo V40 on 14 January last year.
Leave a Reply