A YOUNG driver has been disqualified after drink-driving and crashing into a pedestrian in the early hours of the morning.
Maddie Taylor, 18, was driving an Audi along Curbridge Road, Witney, on July 29 last year when she crashed into a woman in her 40s.
The woman was taken to hospital with minor injuries while Taylor fled the scene.
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She was later caught and charged with drink-driving, with 55 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, as well as being the driver of a vehicle and failing to stop after a road accident.
Taylor was additionally charged for driving without a licence.
At Oxford Magistrates' Court on Wednesday (February 14), she was fined £199 and disqualified for 24 months.
Taylor, of Ripley Avenue, Minster Lovell, will also need to complete 200 hours of unpaid work.
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