A woman who spat at police after she was arrested for drink driving in Shoreham has been convicted in court.
Forty-eight-year-old Tracey Coles who is unemployed of Kingsland Close was spotted on the A270 Old Shoreham Road in Southwick in July, driving with two flat tyres.
Police signalled for her to stop and breathalysed her by the roadside, which she failed.
She then became aggressive towards officers and, when handcuffed, used a number of expletives and spat at one of them, narrowly missing his face.
She was subsequently charged with assaulting an emergency worker and driving with 75mcg of alcohol per 100ml of breath in her system. The legal limit is 35mcg.
At Brighton Magistrates’ Court on 5 August, she was disqualified from driving for 17 months. She was also ordered to pay a £240 fine, £85 costs, a £34 victim surcharge and £50 compensation to the officer.
Coles was among 279 motorists arrested in Sussex during a dedicated crackdown on drink and drug-drivers, which was run between 11 June and 11 July, and was in addition to our routine roads policing duties 365 days year.
A large proportion of the arrests (79) were in relation to an unlicensed music event in Steyning.
Police carried out dedicated patrols to tackle one of the five most common causes of fatal and serious injury collisions, through education, engagement and enforcement.
Of the 279 arrests, 55 people have so far been convicted.
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