A 75-year-old woman has been arrested for alleged drink driving after she attended a family party in apparent defiance of the coronavirus lockdown regulations at the weekend.

The woman crashed into a parked car on her way home from the party and was breathalysed and arrested, Gloucestershire chief constable Rod Hansen revealed today.

He gave brief details of the incident when telling the BBC Radio Gloucestershire breakfast show about the varied ways that people in the county had flouted the lockdown over the last few days.

A Gloucestershire police spokeswoman said later "Police were called to Hawser Road in Tewkesbury shortly after 9.20pm last night (Sunday) following reports that a car had collided with a parked vehicle.

Officers attended and a 75-year-old woman from Tewkesbury was arrested on suspicion of driving whilst under the influence of alcohol.

"No-one was injured during the collision.

"She has since been released under investigation pending further enquiries"

*The Chief Constable also revealed that a father and son were caught driving from Bristol to Leeds and back again at the weekend - a journey of more than 400 miles - to pick up the man's wife.

The chief constable also said someone drove from north of Gloucestershire to sit on the beach at Weston-super-Mare - and that a taxi driver decided to drive his cab to test out a new pollen filter he had fitted.

"The range and type of incidents as you can imagine in society are broad and varied but we're doing our best to limit the impact of that," said Mr Hansen.