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Two men have learnt the hard way what happens when they decide to drive after consuming alcohol.
Both men faced Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Thursday charged with alcohol related driving offences.
Rodney Laurence White pleaded guilty to driving over the middle alcohol limit after he crashed his car at Winfield on January 9.
Police prosecutor Sergeant Grant Klaassen told the court police were called to the single-vehicle crash at 9.30pm on Duck Creek Rd.
White was the sole occupant of the car, which he crashed after failing to negotiate a bend.
A blood sample was taken which returned a blood alcohol reading of 0.124.
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He was only out of jail for four days, but a stint in jail didn’t stop a man from committing further offences upon his release.
The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty in Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Monday to five offences including breaching a domestic violence order, threatening violence as a domestic violence offence and using an approved phone number to request a conference call with someone else.
On the morning of November 20 last year the man and the aggrieved were arguing with each other when the man started yelling and screaming at her to get out of the house.
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Subscriber only A man has learnt the hard way how important it is to never underestimate the potency of home-brew after he crashed into a fence before running a red light. Jack Morgan Horton pleaded guilty in Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Thursday to driving over the middle alcohol limit, failing to have proper control of a vehicle and entering an intersection or foot crossing while a traffic light is red. The court heard police were called to a crash on Elliott Heads Rd on the night of January 10. Police received numerous calls from witnesses, reporting that a vehicle had attempted to turn right onto Elliott Heads Rd before losing control and mounting a concrete kerb into a metal fence, causing damage to three sections.
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A court has heard how a mum had to take evasive action to avoid a crashing into a woman on Rosedale Rd in December.
Madison Anita Aprile Hamerton, 24, pleaded guilty in Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Thursday to three offences which included driving without due care and attention and driving under the influence of liquor.
The court heard a woman was driving her daughter to town on December 12 when she saw a car on the wrong side of the road and had to take evasive action to avoid a collision.
The woman then saw the other car, which was driven by Hamerton, swerve and roll before calling triple-0.