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Premium Content Subscriber only A woman busted doing 40km/hr over the speed limit with a blood alcohol-content reading of .137 was chastised by a magistrate for thinking it was “pure stupidity”. Magistrate Jason Schubert said Susan Anne Acton’s actions on January 23, 2021, where she was detected doing 139kms/hour on the Leichhardt Highway at Taroom at 3.20pm, with a BAC of .137, was “not stupidity” as “stupidity is thinking about getting in a car”. He said Acton behaved irresponsibly, and unsafely, nearly three times the legal limit for driving with alcohol ...

Not only was Kenneth Backo detected drink-driving by the dog squad, he also bypassed an interlock device in his car.

Not only was Kenneth Backo detected drink-driving by the dog squad, he also bypassed an interlock device in his car.

After she was stopped by police for swerving over the road, a 20-year-old woman tried to fool police by climbing from the driver’s seat into the back and pretending to be asleep while cops banged on the window.

Dunedin drink-driver's vehicle gets stuck, forced to take taxi before blowing 3x limit 24 Feb, 2021 11:48 PM Quick Read 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 s...