A YOUNG lad caught drink driving for the second time has been banned from the roads for three years.

Alan Rennie admitted being over the legal limit when he clipped an oncoming car while travelling along the A977 near Solsgirth, to the south of Dollar, on New Year's Day this year.

The driver of the other car was accompanied by his wife and children when the collision took place.

Though no one was injured in the incident, police previously told the Advertiser that both cars were "extensively damaged" and had to be lifted from the road.

On Thursday (February 4), at Alloa Sheriff Court, he admitted getting behind the wheel with 32 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, which exceeded the legal limit of 22mg, and driving without due care or attention to cause an accident on the A977 near Solsgirth on January 1.

Fiscal depute Ruairidh Ferguson told the court that it was around 11.50am when Rennie was on the A977.

The 23-year-old, of Laurel Court in Dunipace, lost control on the bends and drifted across to the opposite side of the road.

A motorist, with his wife and kids in the car, was coming from the other direction and had to take evasive action.

Rennie clipped his vehicle, which sent the other driver crashing.

The police arrived shortly after. The accused complied with officers, but failed the roadside test.

He was taken to Stirling Police Station where he stated that he wasn’t going more than 50-60mph, but his back end started sliding out.

Defence agent Lara Thomson claimed that her client was drinking vodka on Hogmanay instead of his usual choice of beer and was on his way to a friend’s house on New Year’s Day.

A simple case of “the morning after the night before”, Rennie was said to have accepted it was a “great mistake” and that he posed a danger.

Ms Thomson noted that the reading was relatively low, but did have an impact. Rennie was said to be relieved that the outcome was not worse.

The accused has had to pay for the road to be cleaned up and to get his car back, which will have to be scrapped.

The vehicle also has £5,000 worth of finance outstanding that will have to be paid.

Rennie’s employer wrote a character reference in his defence; however, Sheriff Gillian Wade brought to attention that this was his second drink driving offence.

She disqualified him from driving for three years, which will require him to re-sit his test, endorsed his license and fined him £800.