A drunk Wolverhampton Audi driver who smashed into railings and cars – causing £15,000 worth of damage – at the place where he bought the car five months earlier has been banned from driving for two years.

Part-time postal worker Valjeet Singh Sall hit five cars at Finley-Elliot Cars, Great Brickkiln Street, Wolverhampton, on February 14 and was released from the wreckage by firefighters. Peter and Greg Bevan recognised a registration plate left in mangled security gates.

It was from the £7,000 Audi they sold to Sall, aged 25, last September.

Mrs Hina Paw, defending, told Wolverhampton Magistrates Court that Sall was ashamed at what he had done and had returned to the car sales business in person to apologise.

The court heard yesterday that Sall, of Fir Grove, Merridale, was taken to New Cross Hospital with eye and knee injuries and may have permanently damaged his sight.

He was found to have 97mg of alcohol in 100ml of breath in his system – more two-and-a-half times the legal limit of 35mg.

Mrs Paw said he had no recollection of the collision. “He has never driven after drinking before and cannot explain why he did on this occasion,” she said. Sall pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol and a further charge of careless driving. Two of the damaged vehicles, a Citroen and an Alfa Romeo, had been sold and were awaiting collection. The red Romeo V6 was on its way to Malta while the silver Citroen C2 was due to be picked up by its new owner, from RAF Cosford, on the day of the crash.

The court heard that a further £1,000 of damage was caused to the metal fence.

Mrs Paw said that Sall worked full-time at Poundland during the day and at a sorting office for four hours at night but was currently off sick because he had been left with almost no vision in his left eye.

References from his employer and a lecturer at Wulfrun College, where he is taking an NVQ course, were handed to the bench.

In addition to the ban, he was also ordered to pay £60 costs and put under a six-week curfew.