Haywards Heath builder handed ban for drink driving

A Haywards Heath builder has been banned from driving for 19 months after being caught over the limit.
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Pavel Poliacik, 35, of Lower Village, Haywards Heath, was arrested on the A27 at Lewes on July 3 and charged with driving with 78mcg of alcohol per 100ml of breath in his system, said police.

A spokesman added: “At Brighton Magistrates’ Court on 27 August, he was disqualified from driving for 19 months. He was also ordered to pay a £230 fine, £85 costs and a £34 victim surcharge.”

Poliacik was among 83 motorists arrested during Surrey Police and Sussex Police’s summer crackdown on drink and drug-drivers, which ran from June 29 to July 12.