'Sleepwalking' Drink Driver Avoids Jail After Crashing Car at 100mph

Marine engineer David Hamnett, 47, downed whiskey and wine before getting behind the wheel of his Volvo S40.

He travelled 150 miles and reached speeds of up to 100mph before hitting another car and slamming into a motorway's central partition.

Hamnett was cut free from the wreckage wearing just a T-shirt and jogging bottoms. He was twice the drink drive limit.

But he told a court he had been "sleep driving" and had slept-walked to his car and headed off on his usual weekly commute to Devon from his home in Ormskirk, Lancs.

Hamnett said he must have been asleep during the entire drive before the crash which happened in Worcestershire in the early hours of July 9, 2011.

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