An ITV presenter who fronted a primetime show has been handed an 18-month driving ban after drunkenly smashing into a car last year. Ryan Hand, 37, co-hosted the game show Cannonball alongside Maya Jama, Frankie Bridge and Freddie Flintoff and was today sentenced at Downpatrick Magistrates Court in Northern Ireland. The presenter was found to be more than twice the legal drink-drive limit when he left his lane and ploughed into an oncoming car which left the female victim with a broken ankle and requiring to be cut out of her car on September 14. In the aftermath of the incident, Hand's car flipped onto its side and the 37-year-old was 'trapped behind the wheel' before also being subsequently cut out. Hand, who films packages for The One Show on BBC, had been DJing at the Irish Open tournament at the prestigious Royal County Down Golf Course when he later opted to get behind the wheel of a Fiat 500 car. A prosecuting lawyer told the court it was around 11pm when the police received a report of a two vehicle road traffic collision on the Castlewellan Road in Newcastle, County Down. Standing in the dock today, Hand - who has an address at Mountearl Gardens in London - was charged with driving with excess alcohol and careless driving. When police spoke to the 37-year-old, they said ‘his speech was slurred and he smelt of intoxicating liquor’. The victim, who was driving a Renault Clio, told police how the Fiat 500 being driven by Hand had ‘veered across the road’ and crashed into her - causing a fractured ankle. The presenter failed a preliminary breath test and when he was taken to hospital, doctors took a blood sample which when analysed for alcohol gave a reading of 199mgs per 100 mls of blood. With the limit for blood alcohol being 80, the prosecutor highlighted Hand was ‘almost two and a half times the limit’. Defence counsel Noel Dillon confirmed that Hand was 'extremely remorseful about his involvement, and entering guilty pleas to both charges. Mr Dillon said the guilty pleas at the earliest opportunity evidenced that regret, adding that Hand ‘would like to apologise’ to the lady he crashed into. While admitting the presenter is ‘fortunate in terms of the charges directed’ by the Public Prosecution Service given the other driver’s injuries, the barrister said Hand knew he had to be disqualified but he urged the judge to keep the ban to the minimum. District Judge Amanda Brady told Hand that given the fact he was more than twice the legal drink drive limit ‘you cannot expect the minimum’. The judge said the guilty pleas and lack of criminal record meant she was imposing an 18-month driving ban in addition to fines amounting to £500. According to his website, Hand claims he has ‘the versatility of a Swiss army knife’ and boasts that he is ‘a TV and radio presenter, DJ, author and songwriter, with a few strings to his bow’. Since starting as a runner for BBC Northern Ireland in 2008, he got his ‘big break’ in 2017 working on ITV’s Cannonball, alongside main host Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff, Frankie Bridge, Maya Jama and Radzi Chinyananya. However, the show received a wave of criticism and was cancelled after just one season - with many public viewers branding it a lesser version of Total Wipeout. More recently he was a DJ for Northern Irish radio station Q’s weekend breakfast between 2022 and 2024 and currently makes packages for The One Show on BBC 1.