A TEENAGER was banned from driving after just one pint of Kronenbourg.

Callum Moore was one of 75 drivers to lose their licenses after being caught during a Sussex Police’s annual Christmas crackdown on drink driving.

The 19-year-old gas worker, of Pride View, Stone Cross, said he had just one pint of lager two hours before he was pulled over at 8pm on December 29.

But he was found to have 44microgrammes of alcohol per100ml of breath in a roadside breath test.

He was disqualified from driving for 12 months. He was also ordered to pay a £85 fine and £330 costs.

Adam Ilsley, 35, of Courthope Drive, Bexhill, was arrested in Robsack Avenue, St Leonards, on New Year’s Day and charged with driving with 4.3microgrammes of cannabis per litre of blood in his system. He was disqualified from driving for 12 months.

Mark Jones, 36, of Langton Road, Broadwater, was arrested in Langton Road, Broadwater, on 2 December, and charged with being in charge of a vehicle with 46microgramemes of cocaine in his system. He received ten penalty points on his driving licence.

Elaine Pavey, 54, of Hollands Road, Henfield had 5.4mcg cannabis and 781mcg benzoylecgonine per litre of blood in her system. She was disqualified from driving for 18 months.

Petronel Boureanu, 41, of Homefield Road, Worthing, was arrested in Brighton Road, Shoreham, and charged with failing to provide a specimen of breath for analysis. He was disqualified from driving for 17 months.

Brandon Freemantle, 22, of Downsview, Henfield, had 91mcg of alcohol per 100ml of breath in his system and failing to stop after a road traffic collision. He was disqualified from driving for 23 months and sentenced to a 12-month community order. He was also ordered to carry out 120 hours of unpaid work.

Zslot Schmidt, 35, a social worker, of Woodbourne Avenue, Brighton, smashed into five parked cars in Carden Hill, Brighton, on December 17 and charged with driving with 89mcg of alcohol per 100ml of breath in his system.

He was disqualified from driving for 20 months and sentenced to a 12 month community order. He was also ordered to carry out 90 hours of unpaid work, and pay £85 costs and a £85 victim surcharge.

Melanie Ford, 50, of Granville Road, Littlehampton, was caught with 103mcg of alcohol per 100ml of breath in her system and disqualified from driving for 26 months and sentenced to a 12-month community order.

Matthew Whysall, 40, a film industry employee, of Milford Road, Godalming, Surrey, was arrested on the M23 at Crawley on 30 December and charged with being in charge of a vehicle with 67mcg of alcohol per 100ml of breath in his system

Superintendent Chris Moon, head of the Surrey and Sussex Roads Policing Unit, said: “The only way you can safely guarantee you are under the limit is to consume zero alcohol.

“If you’re going to an event where you’ll be having a drink – even if it’s just one – plan ahead and make the necessary arrangements to ensure you’re not in a position where there’s a chance you could be over the limit. Book a taxi, take public transport or arrange a lift with someone who is sober.

“All too often people assume it is acceptable to drive having had “just one drink”. However if you are stopped, breathalysed and blow over the limit, there is no defence for “just one drink”. Alcohol affects people in different ways, and our advice to stay safe is to drink OR drive; never both.”