An RNAS Culdrose civilian admin worker told a court she is likely to lose her job after pleading guilty to drink driving.

Kirsty Young, aged 48, who lives in the Maenporth area of Falmouth, pleaded guilty to the offence when she appeared at Truro magistrates court on Monday (November 4).

The court heard that on July 28 this year at around 9.30pm a member of the public saw a Vauxhall van crashed into the hedge at the T-junction on the Flushing turn junction with Bissom Road.

Young was sitting in the driver’s seat with nobody else in the vehicle. The court was told that Young was slurring her words, smelt of alcohol and when she got out of the van she was unsteady on her feet.

There were bottles of alcohol on the front seat of the van.

An ambulance was called and police spoke to Young while she was in the ambulance.

She had three bottles of Rattler cider in her van, which had been significantly damaged at the front.

Young was taken to the Royal Cornwall Hospital at Treliske to be checked over before being taken to Camborne Police Station where she gave a reading of 75 millilitres in 100 millilitres of breath, the legal limit being 35.

Young told the magistrates that the bottles of Rattler were unopened, and she had been taking them to friend’s house.

However, she told the court she had been to a pub or a bar in Flushing  beforehand and was on her way to Penryn to pick up her son when she overshot the junction.

She told the court that she was an administrator at RNAS Culdrose and because of this conviction she would lose her job.

Disqualifying Young from driving for 18 months, the chair of the bench said there was no excuse for what she had done. Young elected to take a drink driving course which, if competed would see the ban reduced by a third.

Young was also fined £120, ordered to pay £48 surcharge and £85 costs.