A bus driver who spent all night drinking vodka and margaritas before crashing his bus into a Dartford home has been spared jail.

Frank Okanlawon, 56, from Wellington Street in Gravesend, drove the Arriva single-decker bus into two cars and a house in Gore Lane on May 21 last year.

He had been out the night before, going to nightclubs and drinking vodka and margaritas from midnight until around 9am.

He was due to start work at 4pm but didn’t wake up until a colleague called him wondering where he was after he had overslept by two-and-a-half hours.

At 8.20pm, after he dropped off his last passenger, Okanlawon failed to properly navigate a roundabout at Gore Lane.

He drove through a garden wall, hit two cars in the driveway, then into the next door’s front garden and hit the corner of the house.

Okanlawon was taken to the Princess Royal University Hospital in Farnborough after the crash and was found to have more than double the legal alcohol limit in his blood.

There were no passengers on the bus when the crash happened and nobody else was injured.

Okanlawon pleaded guilty to drink-driving but not guilty to dangerous driving, although he was later found guilty at Medway Magistrates Court, January 18.

He had been driving buses for 17 years, and been driving in general for 30 years, and had a completely clean license before this happened.

He has now lost his driving license and is no longer employed by Arriva Bus.

He was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court today, April 5, where he was sentenced to nine months in prison, suspended for 12 months.

He has to pay costs of £390 and will also be required to wear a tag as he will have a curfew from 6pm to 6am each day for one year.