A drink driver who fled the scene of a crash while being nearly four times the drink-drive limit has been sentenced.
Vincent Hicko-Nicko, of Zakopane Road in Haydon Wick, returned to Swindon Magistrates' Court in early June to bring criminal proceedings to a close.
The 44-year-old carer had previously pleaded guilty to one charge of drunk driving and one charge of failing to stop after a road accident after he crashed his Toyota Avensis into a parked Ford Transit van on Worsley Road at around 10.20pm on Saturday, May 11, and was later stopped by police on Wootton Bassett Road.
There, he was breathalysed, arrested, then breathalysed again at the station, which gave a lower reading of 125 microgrammes of alcohol in 100ml of breath - the legal limit is 35 microgrammes of alcohol per 100ml of breath.
The defendant received a community order that requires him to carry out six months of alcohol treatment and up to 10 rehabilitation activity days, as well as pay £85 in court costs plus £114 to fund victim services.
He has been banned from driving for 24 months.
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