Over limit driver faces losing his car after crashing into Perthshire railway line

Feb 12 2010 by Alison Lowson, Perthshire Advertiser Friday

A HIGHLAND Perthshire motorist faces having his Honda Accord confiscated after it crashed off the road and ended up on the main Perth-Inverness railway line.

The forfeiture motion was to have been heard at Perth Sheriff Court on Tuesday – but has been put back until March 8.

The court was told that there were no background reports available on 24-year-old Gavin Morrow, of Station House, Station Road, Blair Atholl.

He has a previous drink/driving conviction within the past 10 years and depute fiscal Katie Pacholek moved for confiscation of the vehicle when he appeared last month.

He pled guilty to driving on the remote B8079 Killiecrankie-Calvine road, near Auld Clune, on January 10 with 73 microgrammes of alcohol. The legal limit is 35 mics.

No details of the incident were given in court but Tayside Police issued a statement indicating the car had been left straddling the railway line, three miles south of Blair Atholl.

Fortunately the first train had not been due until after 11am, giving authorities time to remove it.

Sentence was further deferred to allow the previous background reports, ordered by Sheriff Robert McCreadie, to be made available.

Morrow has already had an interim driving ban imposed.