Lorry driver turned up to warehouse drunk - bosses called the police

Police were called out after a lorry driver turned up to a warehouse while drunk. A court heard that Sergejus Indrisiunas drove to an industrial site in Cheshire to pick up stock last Wednesday (October 16).

Officers attended the scene on Hardwick Road, in Runcorn, where they stopped a Scania articulated lorry that was being driven by Indrisiunas. The 57-year-old was given a roadside breath test and tested positive.

He was arrested on suspicion of drink driving and given a second test while in custody. Indrisiunas was found to be more than three times the legal limit of alcohol - with the reading showing he had 120 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, Cheshire Police says.

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Lithuanian national Indrisiunas, of no fixed address, was charged and remanded in custody before facing Chester Magistrates' Court the following day. He pleaded guilty to drink driving.

Indrisiunas was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison, disqualified from driving for three years and ordered to pay a £154 surcharge. PC Nathan Holland, of Cheshire Police's Runcorn response, said: "I dread to think what could have happened if we had not have stopped Indrisiunas and he had continued driving on the road with other motorists whilst behind the wheel of such a large vehicle.

"Drink driving is one of the fatal five offences, meaning it is a leading contributor to death and serious injury on the roads in England and Wales. Cheshire Police will not tolerate anyone driving on the roads whilst over the specified limit of drink or drugs, least of all those who are supposed to be professional drivers in large articulated lorries such as Indrisiunas."