A TEENAGER has lost her driving licence for drink-driving – after she was involved in a crash that wasn’t her fault.

Torie Greene, 19, had to phone the police after a car ploughed in to her on Scotland’s busiest motorway last month.

Officers arrived at the scene of the 8.30am crash, near to junction 26 – the exit for Braehead shopping centre, and found Greene sitting in the driver’s seat of her Citroen DS3.

The force of the crash was so great that Greene’s airbag had deployed, and police investigating the collision asked Greene if she had been drinking.

Greene told the officers she had not, as she had not consumed any alcohol that morning, but failed a road side breath test. She was taken to the police station where tests revealed she had 69 microgrammes of alcohol in 100ml of breath – meaning she was more than three times over the legal drink-drive limit of 22mcg.

Greene had been out drinking the night before.

The details emerged this week when Greene appeared on an undertaking at Paisley Sheriff Court to face two charges over the events of August 19 this year.

She pleaded guilty to being over the drink drive limit in exchange for a second charge – that her car did not have an MOT – being dropped by prosecutors. Defence solicitor Terry Gallanagh, representing Greene, told the court it had been an honest mistake and her actions on the day in question proved she was not deliberately breaking the law.

He explained: “She had been out in Glasgow with her friend the night before.

“They went out to a bar, they were drinking alcohol and returned to her friend’s aunt’s about 12 or 1am.

“She had been sleeping, got up, and felt absolutely fine – perhaps evidenced by the fact that she had absolutely no fear in engaging with the police when another vehicle struck her car.

“She is surprised at this given what she had to drink but is also ashamed and sorry.”

After hearing that Greene is the carer for her grandfather, who lives in a rural area in Dumfries, and she is the only one in the family with a driving licence, Sheriff Euan Edment said it was “indeed an unfortunate matter.”

He fined Greene, of Dumfries, £430 for the offence, reduced from £650 as she admitted her guilt. He also banned her from driving for 18 months but told her the ban can be reduced by four months if she sits and passes a drink–driving rehabilitation course within the next six months. Greene will have to sit and pass the extended driving test once her ban is over.