A DRINK driver who crashed his car into a pub has been fined.

Adam McGurk, 24, had 56 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath after crashing his Vauxhall Astra into the Bay Horse Pub, in Wolsingham, in the early hours of March 10.

John Garside, prosecuting, said police officers found McGurk, of Thornfield Road, Consett, being helped by staff inside the pub following the incident where a barrier was damaged.

When interviewed, the engineer admitted he had drank six pints of Carling and lost control of the car but had no previous convictions.

Sam Brewster, mitigating, said his client’s girlfriend lived in Weardale and he had travelled down to play in a dart’s league but got “carried away” during the evening.

He said McGurk was currently off work with depression and anxiety and had suffered a broken wrist during the crash.

Sentencing him at Newton Aycliffe Magistrates’ Court yesterday, magistrate Stuart Little, fined him a total of £235 and disqualified him from driving for 16 months.