Drunk-driving in Barbie car costs man licence

LONDON - A Briton caught drunk while driving a toy Barbie car, whose top speed is barely four miles per hour, has been banned from driving.

Forty-year-old Paul Hutton received a three-year ban as he had received another drink-drive ban within the past 10 years.

He was pulled over by police when he was driving an electric Barbie car that moves slower than a mobility scooter close to his home in Essex, The Telegraph reported Tuesday.

“You have to be a contortionist to get in, and then you can’t get out. I was very surprised to get done for drink-driving but I was a twit to say the least.

“It is designed for three-to-five-year-olds. Originally it was a pink Barbie car but I put bigger wheels on it but it’s not fast,” he said after the hearing at Colchester magistrates court.

Hutton, a former RAF aeronautical engineer, said: “It was a little project I was doing with my son who is doing a car mechanics course. When it was done I couldn’t resist the temptation to take it out.”