A woman has been banned from driving after she was caught behind the wheel drunk, and with a front tyre missing on her car.

On October 20, 2023, a concerned member of the public phoned Cambridgeshire Police to report a silver Volkswagen Golf being driven "erratically" on Hartford Road in Huntingdon.

The police drove behind the Golf and followed it through to Stokes Drive in Godmanchester where they caught 53-year-old, Emma Reedman, at the wheel. The force discovered that she had driven with no front tyre on the car.

Reedman, of Stokes Drive, was taken into custody where she provided an evidential breath sample of 116 microgrammes of alcohol in 110ml of breath, which is more than three times the legal limit of 35 microgrammes.

In an interview Reedman claimed that she began drinking once she had arrived home, however a forensic toxicologist confirmed her reading would have been much lower if that was true.

At Cambridge Magistrates' Court on Thursday, September 5, Reedman was disqualified from driving for three years and four months after pleading guilty to drink driving.

PC Alan Stanford, from the Road Policing Unit, said: "Thanks to a member of the public, another drink driver has been taken off our roads.

"People like Reedman, who chose to get behind the wheel of a car while over the limit, are putting other road users lives at risk, not to mention their own."

Cambridgeshire Constabulary operates a confidential, 24/7 hotline to report suspected drink or drug drivers on 0800 032 0845.