A woman was so drunk when she crashed her car that she could not open the door.

Deborah Ellis, 57, swerved onto the wrong side of Upper Church Road in Hastings and crashed head on into a Fiat Punto shortly before 6pm on June 8.

Passers-by then watched as she tried and failed repeatedly to get out of the vehicle - using the handle to open the door but then being unable to get out before it closed on her.

She eventually managed to get out of the Fiesta but then tried to get back in it when police arrived.

However, she was so unsteady on her feet she could not hold the door open long enough to get into the driver's seat.

When officers tested her they found she had 133 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of her breath - almost four times the drink-drive legal limit.

Ellis, of Ormerod Avenue, St Leonards, pleaded guilty to drink-driving when she appeared at Hastings Magistrates' Court on June 24.

She was banned from driving for 30 months and ordered to pay £235 costs and a £60 victim surcharge.

She is one of 29 people to be convicted of offences as part of Sussex Police's summer drink and drug drive campaign.