Moment drink-driver is caught crashing automobile by his OWN dashcam – which then additionally information him telling pal: ‘I’ve had an excessive amount of to drink and I’ll lose my job’

A drunk driver who planned to fake the theft of his car after ploughing the vehicle through a roadside hedge has been caught out by footage from his own dashcam.

Charlie Taylor, 22, lost control of his Mitsubishi Shogun last month on the A1, near the  Cambridgeshire village of Brampton. 

Video footage showed the car veering off the road before barreling through a hedgerow and into a field.

Taylor, who was returning home from a night of drinking, continued to drive through the field before calling a friend to relate what had happened and how he planned to deal with it.

‘You need to call the police,’ urged the woman on the other end of the line.

‘No, I’ve had too much to drink, I can’t call the police,’ replied Taylor, who was more than two times above the legal limit. 

‘I’ve had too much to drink and I’ll lose my job.’

Taylor, from Bourne in Lincolnshire, asked the friend to pick him up and said he would report the vehicle as stolen and ‘park it into a tree’.

Dashcam footage showed that Charlie Taylor lost control of his Mitsubishi Shogun car, veering off the road before barreling through a hedgerow and into a field, where he continued driving

Cracks are seen across the vehicle’s windscreen as it passes through a thick hedgerow 

Taylor pleaded guilty to drink driving and using a vehicle without an MOT. He was disqualified from driving for a year and ordered to pay a £480 fine

But his plan unravelled when a member of the public spotted the car and, mistakenly believing it to be a hare courser, contacted the police.

Following the incident, which occurred at 8.15am on March 2, Taylor was apprehended by officers from Cambridgeshire Police’s rural crime action team. 

A roadside breath test of 81, more than twice the legal limit in England, Wales and Northern Ireland of 35 micrograms per 100 millilitres of breath, was followed by an evidential sample of 53 once Taylor was in custody.

In a hearing at Cambridge magistrates’ court last Thursday, he pleaded guilty to drink driving and using a vehicle without an MOT.

He was disqualified from driving for a year and ordered to pay a £480 fine.

‘This case highlights the reckless decisions people make under the influence,’ said PC Sam Thompson of the rural crime action team.

‘Not only did Taylor put his and others lives at risk, but he was planning to cover it up with a brazen lie.

‘Thankfully, no one was hurt, but the outcome could have been much worse.’