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Subscriber only A mistake at a New Year s Eve party has cost an apprentice tiler his driver s licence. Luke McCartney, 21, had been at a party in Port Macquarie when he was spotted by police driving at an intersection in West Haven. It was about 1.45am on January 1, 2021, when police stopped near McCartney and asked him to wind down his window to speak. Instead, he reversed around the car and drove up the wrong side of a road island. Police then activated their lights and pulled him over on Koonwarra Street. They approached McCartney who appeared to be highly intoxicated, slurring his words.
Dunedin drink-driver s vehicle gets stuck, forced to take taxi before blowing 3x limit
24 Feb, 2021 11:48 PM
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The 64-year-old attempted to reverse and got her vehicle stuck on a bank. Photo / NZH
Otago Daily Times
An alleged drink-driver caught a taxi after getting her car stuck down a dead-end street in Dunedin yesterday.
Senior Sergeant Craig Dinnissen, of Dunedin, said when police located the 64-year-old woman about 6.40pm she recorded an excess breath alcohol level of 810mcg.
The woman got lost and drove her car down Belford St, Waverley, which is a dead end, Snr Sgt Dinnissen said.
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Subscriber only Despite a disturbingly high start to Queensland s road toll this year, driver s have continued to disobey road rules not just putting their own lives at risk - but everyone else on the road. These are the latest drink drivers to be caught in the Lockyer Valley. Gatton Magistrates Court, generic court. A Gatton man whose mate was getting feisty was busted driving his friend home while under the influence of alcohol. Darren Andrew Wheeler, 44, pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol in the Gatton Magistrates Court on Monday, February 23 after he was intercepted by police driving on Railway Street, Gatton.
A 30-year-old mine worker drove down into an embankment in an attempt to flee police while drink driving.
Jared Reece Borghero pleaded guilty at Blackwater Magistrates Court on February 5 to driving under the influence of liquor.
Police prosecutor Sergeant Paul Cramp said Borghero was intercepted by police about 11.25pm on January 22, at a mining camp at Bluff.
The officers were patrolling the Jellinbah Mine camp on the Capricorn Hwy when they saw a white Ford Ranger run into the embankment, thinking it was involved in an incident.
Sgt Cramp said officers smelled liquor on Borghero’s breath, who was the driver at the time.