Victoria Parry was spared jail (Picture: SWNS)

A female driver was nearly three times the drink drive limit when she crashed into several cars.

Alcoholic Victoria Parry, 30, was told by Judge Sarah Buckingham she would have been jailed if she was a man following the accident on the A46 near Stratford-upon-Avon, on May 23, 2018.

She was only given a driving ban despite it being her third conviction for driving offences involving alcohol.

Judge Sarah Buckingham, who had been waiting on pre-sentence reports before delivering her punishment today, said in April: ‘If Miss Parry was a man, there is no question it would have been straight down the stairs, because this is a shocking case of dangerous driving against a background of two previous convictions for excess alcohol.




‘But this offence was committed in May 2018 and she has not been in trouble since.

‘She has clearly got an alcohol problem. She is, whether she admits it or not, an alcoholic.’

Victoria Parry was spared jail (Picture: SWNS)

Other motorists had pulled Parry from the flaming wreck of her car.

A breathalsyer test showed she had 102 microgrammes of alcohol in 100ml of breath – almost three times the legal limit of 35mcg.

When Parry was arrested she took a breath test at the police station almost two hours later and was still well over the legal limit.

Prosecutor Tim Sapwell said: ‘Her driving was such that she caught the rear bumper of a van, and she next hit the wing mirror of a Vauxhall Insignia, and then the side of a BMW very heavily.

‘She hit it with such force that the BMW’s rear wheel was knocked off and the car was written off.

‘It caused her Fiat to spin in the road and go down the embankment into a wooded area where it caught fire.’

Birmingham Crown Court (Picture: Rex)

Road safety charity Brake was disappointed with the sentence Parry received, with a spokesperson adding: ‘Dangerous driving is a daily menace on our roads.

‘When drivers take illegal and selfish actions such as drink driving, they knowingly put lives in danger.

‘Repeat offenders are the most dangerous on our roads.

‘They must be dealt with severely so that they no longer pose a threat to other road users and making it clear that this kind of dangerous behaviour by any driver will not be tolerated.’

Parry, from Stratford-upon-Avon, was handed an 18-month suspended sentence and banned from driving for 24 months at Birmingham Crown Court.

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