Shamed ex-London council chief executive sentenced for drink-drive crash

Shamed ex-London council chief executive sentenced for drink-drive crash

Bayo Dosunmu had slurred speech when he was pulled over by police

The former chief executive for Lambeth Council has been banned from driving after he crashed his car while almost three times the drink-drive limit.


Bayo Dosunmu, 46, was uninsured and he failed to stop after the crash near to Wandsworth Bridge, and he had slurred speech when he was eventually pulled over.

Dosunmu was disqualified from driving for the next two years as a result of his convictions.


The court heard Dosunmu was driving a white Jeep at just before 9am on 23 June when he was involved in a collision with a blue Toyota, while it was waiting at traffic lights at the junction of Wandsworth Bridge Road and Townmead Road in Fulham.


Dosunmu drove away instead of stopping after the crash, and the driver of the Toyota tailed him until he had to pull in front of the Jeep to get it to stop.


At the roadside, police said Dosunmu was slurring his words and was “struggling to follow directions”.


Prosecutor Thomas Murphy said Dosunmu had driven a “short distance” from the crash site, and “only stopped because the member of the public in the other vehicle followed and put his car in a position so the defendant could no longer drive away”.


Dosunmu, who was living in an apartment overlooking the Thames in Chelsea Harbour, failed a roadside breath test, and in a second test at a police station he had 100 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.


The legal limit is 35 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath

His lawyer, Colin Aylott KC, said Dosunmu has a “history of public service”, and he had “some degree of pride” when he got the Lambeth job.


“To have lost his job and the ramifications that flow from that have taken a heavy toll on him”, he said, adding that Dosunmu is now living with his sister.