52-year-old fined $2K, banned from driving for one year after pleading guilty to two charges in connection with June incident that she described as a 'blessing for me'
After a decade of sobriety, COVID-19 dragged Heather Dukes back into addiction, a judge heard last week.
Dukes was convicted of operating a vehicle with a blood-alcohol level exceeding 80 milligrams of alcohol in a 100 milliliters of blood and failing to remain at the scene of an accident. When officers arrived one of the vehicles had left the scene, assistant Crown attorney Adrianna Mucciarelli told the court.Dukes then walked back to where the cops were and told them she was the other driver involved in the collision.She was transported to the station where two breath samples registered readings of 172 and 159 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood.
Dukes was involved in two collisions. She drove through a stop sign striking another vehicle, continued on her way and hit the pole.The high readings are aggravating, the Crown said.
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