Kerry jockey charged with drink driving after car crashes into tree in England

Murphy, who grew up in Killarney, Co Kerry, and rode five winners at Royal Ascot last week, is due to appear at Reading Magistrates’ Court on July 3

Oisin Murphy was charged in connection with a single-vehicle road traffic collision (John Walton/PA)

Champion jockey Oisin Murphy has been charged with drink driving after a car left a West Berkshire road in England and crashed into a tree.

Murphy, 29, of Beales Farm Road, Lambourn, Hungerford, was charged by postal requisition on June 19 with one count of driving a motor vehicle while over the prescribed limit of alcohol and one count of failing to co-operate with a preliminary test at the roadside, Thames Valley Police said.