A motorist crashed in a Lidl car park while almost four times the drink-drive limit.

Alan Hamilton Dalgleish collided with another vehicle at the Dalry store on September 16.

Dalgleish, of Dalry’s Wingfaulds Avenue, pled guilty to one charge at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court last week.

The procurator fiscal told the court that it was around 6.30pm when a witness saw Dalgleish’s vehicle “veering over the roadway as it entered the car park” on Kilwinning Road. The witness “heard a bang” and realised that Dalgleish had collided with another vehicle.

Police were contacted and when they attended, they observed Dalgleish to be “unsteady on his feet”.

Officers carried out a roadside breath test and found Dalgleish to have 81 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit in Scotland is 22 in 100.

Dalgleish was arrested and taken to Saltcoats Police Station.

Solicitor Jim Irvine said: “Mr Dalgleish is a 53-year-old single man. His elderly father resides with him and he is his carer.

“He is normally employed as a landscape worker. The problem is the driving is a big part of his job and if he was to lose his licence that would be a difficulty.

“He had been out during the day for a meal – drink was not meant to be part of it but he was with friends and drink was taken.

“He makes no excuses, he’s embarrassed to find himself here at 53-years-old.”

Sheriff Michael Hanlon fined Dalgleish £350. He also disqualified him from driving for 14 months, with the option to reduce the ban by three months on completion of a drinkdrive rehabilitation course.