A MOTHER was more than twice the drink-drive limit when she crashed and overturned her car.

Cheryl Graddon had her nine-year-old son in the back of her Peugeot 206, and also admitted to driving with no licence and no insurance when the incident occurred.

It happened in Plymouth Avenue, Brighton, at about 10.48pm on June 7 – during Surrey and Sussex Police’s summer crackdown on drink and drug-drivers.

On police arrival, it was discovered the Peugeot had clipped a kerb and collided with two parked cars – a Volkswagen Passat and a Citroen Xsara – before coming to a stop on its roof.

The occupants – driver Graddon, 30, of Fitch Drive, Brighton, and her son – were treated at the scene for minor injuries.

A sample of blood was then taken from Graddon, who is unemployed, which revealed she had 178mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood in her system. The legal limit is 80mg.

She pleaded guilty at Brighton Magistrates’ Court and was disqualified from driving for 20 months.

She was also sentenced to a six-month community order and ordered to pay a £120 fine, £85 costs and a £85 victim surcharge.