A 21-year-old woman was fined and banned from the roads after drink driving and crashing into bollards in Whiteley.
Kerry Irvine from East Sussex was driving a Fiat Punto car, but got lost on her journey to visit friends in the area and – after asking for directions at the Solent Hotel – collided with the bollards in Rookery Avenue.
A hotel worker watched Irvine stall the car and rev the engine as she pulled away from the car park.
The worker believed she was under the influence of alcohol and did not think Irvine knew how to drive so informed the police, prosecutor Giles Fletcher said.
Irvine, of The Oaks, Little Ridge Avenue in St Leonards-On-Sea, left the scene of the crash, but was found by police and she was charged with drink-driving.
She failed a roadside breathalyser test with 49 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35 microgrammes.
At the police station she was found to have 110 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood, exceeding the prescribed limit of 80 milligrammes.
She admitted driving the car, believed to belong to her boyfriend, and causing the accident.
Irvine had driven the car with a friend also in the vehicle on November 10 last year. No injuries had resulted from the accident. However she only had a provisional driving licence.
Irvine pleaded guilty to Fareham magistrates to drink driving, driving without the correct licence and leaving the scene of an accident.
She was disqualified from driving for 12 months, fined £110 and ordered to pay a £20 victim surcharge for drink driving, fined £50 and given three penalty points for driving without the correct licence and fined £110 with eight penalty points for failing to stop at the scene of an accident.