A driver in New South Wales was arrested for allegedly driving while seven times over the legal limit – and it was reportedly very, very obvious.
In a post on its Traffic and Highway Patrol Command Facebook page, the NSW Police Force said it received numerous calls from members of the public about an alleged drunk driver in the Speers Point area at the northern end of Lake Macquarie yesterday afternoon (Sunday, May 11).
The white Holden Rodeo was allegedly being driven “erratically” and was seen “colliding with gutters and raised concrete median strips”.
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Lake Macquarie Highway Patrol officers caught up with the driver in Belmont and subjected him to a roadside breath test, which returned a positive result.
After being arrested and taken to Belmont Police Station for a secondary breath analysis, the driver allegedly returned a reading of 0.359 – more than seven times the legal limit of 0.05.
His licence was immediately suspended ahead of a court appearance on Wednesday, June 18 for driving with a high-range prescribed concentration of alcohol.
Over the course of the weekend, NSW police also conducted Operation RAID (Remove All Impaired Drivers).
Between 12:01am on Thursday, May 8 and 11:59pm on Saturday, May 10, police set up “hundreds” of stationary and mobile random breath and drug testing sites.
Officers conducted 6841 drug tests with 461 people returning positive tests, and 109,796 breath tests with 132 drink-driving offences detected.
The operation also saw police detect 1373 speed-related offences, 286 mobile phone usage offences, and 84 seatbelt or helmet-related offences.
