A DRIVER stopped by police after making a turn was over the drugs-drive limit, heard Skipton Magistrates' Court.
Lloyd Thompson, 20, was driving a Ford Fiesta along Keighley Road, Skipton at about 11.45pm on December 15 when he made a turn a 'little too quickly', the court heard.
He provided a positive road side drugs test and was taken to the police station where a blood test later revealed he had 150 microgrammes of cocaine by product Benzoylecgonine in 100 millilitres of blood, the legal limit is 50.
Thompson, of Reginald Street, Colne, a customer services advisor for a mobile phone company, who admitted drugs driving, was a man of previous good character who had never taken drugs until a couple of days before being stopped, the court was told.
He was banned from driving for a year and fined £313 with costs f £85 and surcharge of £31.
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