A drug-driver hit a kerb then crashed his car into a lamp-post in Dunfermline.

Jack Colquhoun told police he had taken “three or four bumps” of ketamine before getting behind the wheel.

Colquhoun, 23, of Centre Street, Kelty, appeared in the dock at Dunfermline Sheriff Court for sentencing.

He admitted that on 1st December last year in Linburn Road, Dunfermline, he drove a car when unfit to do so through drink or drugs.

The court heard that at 6.40pm witnesses in a vehicle saw Colquhoun pull out of a junction in front of them and then drive through a mini-roundabout at speed.

The car then swerved about the road, striking a kerb and then a lamp-post.

When police arrived at the scene, Colquhoun’s car could not be moved because of the damage to it.

When officers spoke to Colquhoun, he was unsteady on his feet saying he had taken “ket”.

Defence solicitor Alexander Flett said: “Foolishly he’d taken this substance at the end of an extremely stressful day.”

Sheriff Elizabeth McFarlane told Colquhoun, “You’ve made a very big mistake.”

She banned him from driving for three years and fined him £525.

In March 2021, Colquhoun appeared in the same court and was banned for drink-driving after crashing his car into a field.