Drink drivers felt the full force of the law over the weekend as Griffith police patrolled the highways for Operation Drink Drive One.
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There were more highway patrol cars on the roads and more officers on the beat throughout the Murrumbidgee Police District area from Friday to Sunday.
Over the 72 hour period Murrumbidgee police took 3277 random breath tests and issued 113 infringement notices for various offences such as speeding and lack of seatbelts.
Things started picking up at 4.20pm on Friday when a 32-year-old man was caught driving on Burley Griffin Way in Barellan at 128 km/h in a 100 km/h zone.
He was found to have been driving with a low range blood alcohol level of 0.054, and he will face Griffith Local Court on March 13.
On Saturday at 6.32am a 29-year-old was caught driving on Noorebar Avenue without his alcohol interlock device, which he was required to have due to previous offences.
The man was not affected by alcohol at the time, but he was charged and will appear before Griffith Local Court on April 14.
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Shortly afterwards on Saturday at 8.20am a 25-year-old man was caught driving on Kookora Street with a low range blood alcohol reading of 0.053.
He was charged and will front Griffith Local Court on March 13.
On Sunday at 7.30am a 20-year-old man was caught driving on Griffin Lane while he was disqualified from driving.
When he was pulled over he tried to use a Malaysian Driver Licence instead.
He was charged with providing a false document to a police officer and driving while disqualified, and he will appear before Griffith Local Court on April 17.
Two hours later at 9.30am on Sunday a 20-year-old on a green P licence was caught driving with a low range blood alcohol level of 0.075.
Police also found the driver had an unsecured load on his other vehicles and had been missing infringement notices due to not updating his residential address.
Police officers throughout NSW were kept busy, with 202,360 breath tests, 259 drink driving charges, six deaths, 2,330 speeding infringements, and 6,239 miscellaneous infringements.
Traffic and Highway Patrol Command’s Assistant Commissioner Michael Corboy said he was furious at all the dangerous driving taking place on NSW roads.
“The risk you are placing on yourself but potentially your family and other people on the road can only be described as extreme,” Assistant Commissioner Corboy said.
“There is no room on our roads for this selfish, irresponsible, idiotic behaviour.
“We’d like to remind road users our focus on drink driving does not stop after the operation finishes.”
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Kenji Sato
Kenji Sato is a handsome journalist at The Daily Advertiser who enjoys writing flattering bios about himself in the third person. He can be contacted by email at kenji.sato@dailyadvertiser.com.au or by mobile on 0448 927 612.
Kenji Sato is a handsome journalist at The Daily Advertiser who enjoys writing flattering bios about himself in the third person. He can be contacted by email at kenji.sato@dailyadvertiser.com.au or by mobile on 0448 927 612.
