A Pembrokeshire builder fell asleep at the wheel after drinking eight pints, and crashed into a stationary vehicle.

Ryan McVeigh, of Clement Road, Goodwick, had been drinking after attending a big rugby game on September 21 this year.

Shortly before 4.30 in the morning of September 22, the 32-year-old crashed his Citroen Berlingo into a parked Nissan Qashqai before ringing police and telling them that he had fallen asleep at the wheel.

Officers arrived at the scene at Windy Hall, Fishguard, to find McVeigh on the pavement next to his Berlingo which was on the opposite side of the road.

The Qashqai had been shunted 10 yards and was damaged.

McVeigh told officers that he had been to a big rugby game and had drunk eight pints.

He was breathalysed and found to have 87 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath more than twice the drink drive limit.

Mike Kelleher defending, told Haverfordwest Magistrates Court today, Tuesday, October 8, that McVeigh was of previously clean character.

“It was a disastrous move to make,” he said. “It was the early hours of the morning, there were no taxis and he lives a distance from where he was. Very stupidly he decided to drive. Hopefully this is a mistake he will never make again in his entire life.”

Magistrates disqualified McVeigh from driving for 18 months. They also fined him £300 and ordered him to pay £85 costs and a £120 victim surcharge.