A woman drove for 23 miles the wrong way along a motorway dodging other road users before eventually coming to a stop. Mother-of-three Deborah Hunt, 43, spent at least 20 minutes in the southbound overtaking lane of the M5 after doing a U-turn in the carriage near Junction 24 for Bridgwater. Police found her trying to restart the engine to her Peugeot 806 in the hard shoulder near Junction 21 for Weston-Super-Mare and she smelled heavily of alcohol. As she was jailed for nine months today, Judge Mark Horton said he would be failing in his public duty if he did not give her a custodial sentence. Hunt, of Langport, Somerset, was suffering from alcoholism, stress caused by unemployment as a financial adviser, and a battle with her ex-husband over custody of their children. Judge Horton said it was 'unbelievably fortunate' no one had been killed or injured by her as she drove at 60mph in the dark after 11pm on July 14 this year in northern Somerset.
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