A drink-driver, who crashed into a telegraph pole, was caught after her smart watch called 999.

Leisure worker Rebecca MacDonald was involved in the smash after drinking on a night out and driving home.

MacDonald, 20, formerly of Queens Haugh, Carnock, now of Tinto Place, Edinburgh, appeared in the dock at Dunfermline Sheriff Court.

She admitted that on April 21 on the A907 at Carnock Road, Dunfermline, she drove having consumed excess alcohol.

Her reading was 73 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood, the limit being 50 milligrammes.

Depute fiscal Catherine Stevenson said at 1am there was a 999 call automatically sent from MacDonald’s Apple Watch reporting a serious road traffic collision.

Officers attended the accident and MacDonald was taken to hospital for treatment before she later failed an alcohol test.

Defence solicitor Chris Sneddon said his client, a leisure worker in Edinburgh, was “very embarrassed by this catastrophic error of judgement”.

“She had been out in Edinburgh and thought she wouldn’t be over the limit,” he added.

He said there was no-one else involved in the accident and her Apple Watch had contacted the emergency services.

Sheriff Krista Johnston banned MacDonald from driving for a year and fined her £420.