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Five NSW drivers busted for high-range DUI
NSW Police have caught five drivers behind the wheel with high-range drink-driving blood alcohol levels of 0.160 or higher during a pre-Christmas blitz.
December 25, 2018
Five NSW drivers have been caught behind the wheel with high-range blood alcohol levels during a Christmas police blitz.
One 49-year-old man, who was nabbed speeding at more than 160km/h in a 100km zone on the M2 motorway in Sydney’s northwest on Christmas morning, had a blood alcohol level of 0.228, police said on Tuesday.
A 38-year-old woman, who was stopped after driving into a gutter and puncturing her car’s tyres on Wollombi Road, near Newcastle, had a blood alcohol reading of 0.221.
While south of Sydney, a 44-year-old man, who failed to stop at an intersection and ploughed into another vehicle, returned a blood alcohol level of 0.206.
Two drivers, 29 and 34, were picked up during random breath tests with blood alcohol levels of 0.189 and 0.161, respectively.
Al the drivers will appear in NSW courts in early next year.
Assistant Commissioner Michael Corboy says police are disappointed drivers continue to put people’s lives at risk and urged drivers to have a plan B if they drink alcohol.
About 900 speeding fines were issued to drivers and more than 1,100 infringement notices were issued for other driving offences in the four days before Christmas, police say.
There were no fatalities on NSW roads during that period.
Operation Safe Arrival, an annual high-visibility policing operation, began on December 21 and will continue until January 1.