Drink driver, 35, who was three times limit when he flipped his Peugeot ...

Drink driver, 35, who was three times limit when he flipped his Peugeot ...
Drink driver, 35, who was three times limit when he flipped his Peugeot ...

A businessman who drove his two tonne motorhome through the morning rush hour traffic whilst almost three times the alcohol limit has been freed by a judicial officer who said he had escaped jail - by the 'width of a cigarette paper.'

Grant Wagster, 35, failed a breathalyser test after he lost control of his Peugeot Boxer 330 motorhome on a motorway and flipped it over whilst returning home from an alcohol fuelled seaside staycation holiday.

During the crash the motorhome collided with a BMW before overturning and coming to rest between lane two and lane three of the M60 near Manchester. 

The stretch of carriageway remained closed for two hours with the crash causing tailbacks stretching five miles.

Inquiries revealed married Wagster, from Macclesfield, Cheshire who runs a tree surgery company had two previous drink driving convictions.

At Manchester magistrates court he faced up to six months in prison after he admitted his third offence of driving under the influence.

However he was freed by a JP who said Grant had narrowly avoided jail time by the 'width of a cigarette paper'. 

Grant lost control of his Peugeot Boxer 330 motorhome on a motorway and flipped it over whilst returning home from a seaside holiday.

Grant lost control of his Peugeot Boxer 330 motorhome on a motorway and flipped it over whilst returning home from a seaside holiday.

Wagster was nearly three times over the limit

He was on a booze-filled holiday with a friend

Grant narrowly avoided jail time for his third conviction for drink driving. He was given a 12 month community order and will be subject to an alcohol abstinence programme for 120 days.

Instead, he was given a 12 month community order and will be subject of an alcohol abstinence monitoring programme for 120 days.

He was also ordered to complete 150 hours unpaid work and was disqualified from driving for 28 months.

Sentencing the magistrate known only as Mr Fry told Wagster: 'You lost control of your motorhome as it toppled over and you could have killed someone.

'This is a very serious matter, you were nearly three times over the legal limit and this was an exceptionally high reading. You have come within a cigarette paper width of going to prison today.'

The incident occurred at 7.30am on July 25 this year when Wagster who had been holidaying with a friend in Morecambe was travelling between Junction

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