A drink-driver who lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a fence in Coleraine on Saturday was three times the legal alcohol limit.
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The accident stemmed from a road rage incident on Friday afternoon on the highway between Coleraine and Hamiton.
Sergeant Paul Stanhope said that there were allegations of dangerous driving made by the occupants of one of two vehicles while they were both on their way to Hamilton.
Police were notified of the road rage incident.
Hours later at 1am, one of the men involved in the road rage incident turned up at the victim’s Coleraine house and ripped out the letterbox, tossing it into the front yard.
Police were called, and about half an hour later when they arrived from Hamilton they noticed a vehicle being driven erratically before it spun out and hit a fence.
The driver, a 25-year-old Coleraine man, was arrested and his car impounded.
His blood alcohol reading was 0.16.
Sergeant Stanhope said the man has been bailed to appear in a Hamilton court in June.