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The Advertiser
12-05-2025
- The Advertiser
Mother's Day drunk driver arrested for bouncing off kerbs, seven times over the limit
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". Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. 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. Content originally sourced from: 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". Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. 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. Content originally sourced from: 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". Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. 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. Content originally sourced from: 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". Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. 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. Content originally sourced from:
Perth Now
12-05-2025
- Perth Now
Mother's Day drunk driver arrested for bouncing off kerbs, seven times over the limit
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'. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. Supplied Credit: CarExpert 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.
7NEWS
12-05-2025
- 7NEWS
Mother's Day drunk driver arrested for bouncing off kerbs, seven times over the limit
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'. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. 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.
Perth Now
05-05-2025
- Perth Now
Teenager racks up almost $6000 in fines for doing burnouts on rims of Holden ute
A 19-year-old disqualified driver has had his vehicle confiscated after being caught performing burnouts in what appears to be a VT-series Holden Ute on Saturday night. According to a Facebook post by the NSW Police Force's Traffic and Highway Patrol Command, the driver was nabbed while conducting burnouts in the western Sydney suburb of Kemps Creek at 10:23pm on May 3. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. Supplied Credit: CarExpert As you can see from the images, the public-road burnout session led to the destruction of the somewhat dishevelled looking ute's rear tyres and even its rear bumper. Police said the man received a number of penalty notices totalling $5818 and will also be forced to pay towing and storage fees for the ute, which was impounded on the night. 'An expensive night for a poor decision by this driver,' said the post, which received more than 700 mostly negative comments. Most commenters called for a lifetime driving ban for the teenager, with one demanding he pay for damage to the road and another saying: 'The real crime here is the government not providing somewhere for this to take place in a controlled environment.'
The Guardian
01-05-2025
- Automotive
- The Guardian
More than 100 vehicles stuck with flat tyres on busy Sydney motorway after sharp debris on road
A trucking company has apologised after more than one hundred vehicles were stuck with flat tires on the a busy Sydney motorway due to sharp metal debris spread across the roadway. Police were called to the southbound M1 between Wyong Road and Mount White around around 5:10am Friday morning 'due to a large amount of metal debris on the roadway,' NSW Police said in a statement. The tyres of more than on hundred vehicles were damaged, Traffic and Highway Patrol Command officers found. Many of the vehicles were stopped in the breakdown lane. 'A truck lost a load of scrap metal around 5am this morning,' NSW Rural Fire Service said in a post to social media. Daniel Falconer, of hauler and trucking company NJ Ashton, confirmed the vehicle belonged to them on Ben Fordham's 2GB on Friday morning. Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter The debris is called 'flock,' Falconer said, small, sharp steel that 'when it comes out, it is puncturing the tyres'. 'It is a mechanical error of some sort, we don't know exactly how it has come out the back of the truck,' Falconer said. 'It's been seeping out by the looks of it over a couple of kilometres.' The vehicle traveled 30km before metal started falling out, he said. 'The same truck has been doing the same run for three or four weeks and we haven't had a problem.' The driver had 'absolutely no idea' the metal was spilling. Falconer said the pins on the back of the truck were locked. 'When the police turned up, they confirmed that they were locked firm. So it's just coming out somehow, we're not 100% sure, but we'll have to investigate the whole thing.' Falconer said NJ Ashton mechanics are en route to fix tyres and 'help anyone on the side of the road'. 'We are very, very sorry for what has happened.' 'We are just doing as much as we possible can.' Heavy vehicle inspectors, a tow truck and sweepers joined emergency services and Transport NSW at the scene, according to Live Traffic NSW. The Transport Management Centre coordinator Howard Collins told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation the backdoor of a vehicle came open 'and spread thousands of pieces of sharp metal all across the motorway'. 'Hundreds of vehicles have had their tyres punctured by this metal.' 'I've seen photographs multiple tyres, so it's no use changing one tyre, because three or four have gone.' Southbound lanes of the M1 between Wyong Road, Tuggerah and the Calga Interchange were closed, and diversions are in place. Police urged motorists to allow 'plenty of extra travel time' in the area. More details soon …
