A MOTORIST who crashed his car into two front gardens has lost his appeal against a three-year driving ban.

Leonard Parker, of Drakes Road, Amersham, appeared at Aylesbury Crown Court last Friday to appeal against the sentence for failing to provide a breath specimen after the accident on December 10 last year.

Parker was arrested at the scene of the single vehicle accident when police smelt alcohol on his breath.

A first breath test was unacceptable because of a technicality.

Parker was asked to do a second test but refused 'because he was bored', respondent prosecutor Richard Sothcott told the crown court.

Judge Roger Connor and two accompanying magistrates ruled last Friday that the three-year ban was mandatory.

He added: "We think this appeal is conspicuously without merit".

He ordered Parker to pay £125 toward the cost of the hearing.

Parker, 41, had admitted the offence at Chiltern Magistrates Court on April 19 when he was given the driving ban by the court and also a community rehabilitation order.

Mr Sothcott said that the accident happened on a Sunday afternoon and said two people living near the crash scene stopped Parker from leaving before police arrived.

Jane Barker, for Parker, who had previous convictions, claimed the period of disqualification should have been discretionary and asked the appeal tribunal to reduce the term.