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Driver spotted on mobile phone was over the limit

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September 29, 2025

A Wearside man was caught drink-driving after police saw him using a mobile phone at the wheel in central Newcastle, a court heard.

- by Gareth Crickmer

Dale Crow, 31, was spotted by officers talking into his handheld device as he drove a Hyundai in City Road at 8.50am on Monday, February 24.

They tailed Crow, who at the time was living at St Cuthbert's Close, Hetton-le-Hole, to the Quayside address of St Anne's Street.

Crow, now of no fixed abode, was pulled over and breathalysed, prosecutor Rehana Haque told magistrates in South Tyneside.

He gave an over-the-limit reading for alcohol and was arrested, and an evidential sample at a police station while in custody proved his guilt.

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