COMEDIAN Vic Reeves has been banned from driving for 32 months after he admitted crashing his vintage Jaguar while drunk and then leaving the scene.

The 46-year-old, pictured, was more than three times the legal alcohol limit when he crashed into a parked car near his home in Boughton Malherbe, Kent, on March 25.

Reeves real name Jim Moir did not even notice he had hit the car, in which one of his neighbours was sitting, and careered up a bank and into a fence before driving on to his home.

He pleaded guilty at Maidstone Magistrates' Court yesterday to leaving the scene of the collision, having already admitted drink-driving at a hearing earlier this month.

Sentencing the comedian, chairwoman of the bench Lizzie Hughes said he could have faced a jail term, but would receive a lower punishment because of his early guilty pleas, contrition, and lack of previous offences.

She sentenced Reeves to a total of 100 hours community punishment order for both counts, and disqualified him from driving for 32 months.

The driving ban will be reduced to two years if he pays £200 to complete a drink-driving rehabilitation course.