A WOMAN has been banned from driving after getting behind the wheel while under the influence of cocaine when a two-year-old child was in the back seat.

Emma Crawford also head-butted and bit police officers in the incident, which was sparked by an argument with a Tinder date.

Police officers were called to her house in Old Hall at 6.50am on Sunday July 24 after a man reported a dispute with the 31-year-old.

Halton Magistrates’ Court heard on Friday, the pair had met on the internet dating site Tinder and that he went round to her house the following evening.

They started drinking from around 7pm and consumed a litre-and-a-half of vodka between them, before he suggested they take cocaine.

Mum-of-two Crawford had not taken drugs since the birth of her first child in 2012 but wanted to be accepted by the man so took two keys, the court heard.

The pair stopped drinking at around 3am, and the man said that he was leaving at around 6.30am which caused an argument – the man called the police as he felt she was not letting him leave.

Crawford, described as ‘upset and angry’ put the two-year-old child into the back of her white Nissan Duke and went to look for the male after he left the property.

Police arrived on the scene to find her driving the car, and the pair began shouting at each other in the street.

Officers described Crawford as ‘very emotional’ and smelling of alcohol, while the two-year-old appeared to be distressed.

Crawford got out of the car but failed to apply the handbrake and was arrested – in the ensuing struggle she kicked a policeman in the face, head-butted a female officer and bit another’s finger.

She also head-butted a police van and bit her own arms and officers administered incapacitating spray.

Tests found she was below the drink drive limit but was more than six times the limit for cocaine and more than five times over the limit for benzoylecgonine, a by-product of cocaine.

The court heard that Crawford, who has two previous convictions for assaulting police officers and being drunk and disorderly, was ‘very remorseful’ and had ‘made a stupid decision’.

Crawford had wanted to calm the two-year-old down but reacted angrily as the police would not let her – she has since apologised to the officers and also lost her job as a carer as a result of the incident.

She admitted two counts of driving under the influence of drugs, being drunk in charge of a child and three charges of assaulting police officers at an earlier hearing.

Magistrates banned her from driving for 12 months and ordered her to undergo a 12-week curfew of 7pm to 7am.

Crawford was also ordered to pay costs of £85 as well £200 compensation to the police officer and will undergo a 35-day rehabilitation activity requirement.