A MAN who refused to give a breath specimen after a car crash has been banned from driving and ordered to do 100 hours community work.

Zeeshan Ahmed, aged 23, of Manchester Road, Burnden, was in a vehicle which crashed in Crescent Road, Great Lever, on August 28 last year.

He claimed he was unable to give police a breath sample at the scene because he had asthma and later refused to give a urine sample at a police station.

Charges of driving without insurance were dropped because it could not be proved that he was driving, Bolton Magistrates Court heard yesterday (Tuesday).

The father of one was banned from driving for 18 months after pleading guilty at an earlier hearing.

He was also ordered to pay £60 costs.