A ‘HOPELESSLY drunk’ woman crashed into a BMW, Land Rover, Audi and a Ford Fiesta in the middle of the day.

Deborah Kinsey smashed into the parked vehicles while driving her white convertible Volkswagen along Evelyn Road and Maxwell Road on May 12.

Prosecutor Kate Davies told Bournemouth Crown Court on September 18 that the owner of the Audi A5 was woken up by a loud crash at around 2pm.

He checked his vehicle and found that both his car and his neighbour’s Land Rover were damaged along with a black BMW.

After calling the police the man and his neighbour witnessed the defendant attempting to do a three-point turn at the end of the road.

He said while driving back up, Kinsey was swerving and ‘almost hit every vehicle on the road’.  

Both car owners shouted at the defendant, telling her to stop, and attempting to wave her down.

Despite having her roof down Kinsey ignored their pleas to stop.

She then continued to drive to her home address on Maxwell Road, around one mile away, where she attempted to park her car in a shared driveway, before colliding with a Ford Fiesta.

Ms Davies said that the defendant appeared to have no control over the car and stalled the vehicle.

Police officers attended and told the defendant to leave her car but when she refused the officers removed her forcibly.

Kinsey wept in court as CCTV was shown of her arrest.

When taken to Bournemouth custody the defendant also refused to give a breath specimen.

The court heard that Kinsey has one previous conviction of driving in excess of alcohol in 2016.

Mitigating, Rebecca McKnight, said the defendant is “exceptionally embarrassed” of her actions and understands the seriousness of the offences.

She added that Kinsey has limited financial means working as a barber and is unable to pay towards court costs.

Assistant judge advocate general Hill told the defendant she was “hopelessly drunk” for a prolonged period and that her actions towards police were disgraceful.

He said she was in a “cigarette paper width” of going to prison but that he would grant her an act of mercy by suspending her sentence.

Kinsey, 57 and of Maxwell Road, was sentenced to 12 months suspended for two years for dangerous driving, failing to provide a specimen, failing to report an accident and failing to stop after a road accident.

She was also ordered to do 175 hours of unpaid work and was disqualified from driving for three years with an extended test period.