7 December 2010

Drink driver with 13 previous!

7 December 2010 | johnboy

A 52-year-old Gowrie man has been caught for the 9th time over the limit in the ACT. He also has five previous drink drive convictions in NSW.

On Thursday December 2 about 9pm, police were conducting mobile patrol on Charleston Street in Monash when they pulled over a green coloured Subaru Impreza for a random breath test. The driver returned a positive result and was taken back to Tuggeranong Police Station.

Between November 29 and December 6, a total of 31 people have been caught drink driving.

Of the 31 that returned positive results, 12 of the drivers have 0.00 to 0.02 limits. The highest reading was 0.251, which was for a 36-year-old 0.00 licence holder with two previous convictions. The highest reading for a 0.05 licence holder was 0.196.

The weekends continue to be the most problematic for drink drive offences in the ACT with 19 positives from Friday December 3 through to Sunday December 5.

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zllauh12:30 am 17 Sep 15

there was a 42 male caught for the seventh time for drunk driving and now this. take away their damn license , banish them all :p

Gerry-Built11:54 am 06 Dec 11

maybe the fourteenth time will be the real killer…

Felix the Cat10:40 am 06 Dec 11

At the very least confiscate his car.

Chop7110:25 am 06 Dec 11

Time he moved to QLD. (or the big house)

00davist10:25 am 06 Dec 11

Hanksinatra said :

car culture is so ingrained. it is related to “road safety” which is almost a null concept without cars. what about “transport safety” as a theme? Of course there would be no cars and probably limited drunk in charge of a vehicle legislations. Anyway, do more people die from errant drink drivers or from drink driving laws in our car satisfaction designed cities? Are those who die this way more or less innocent than others? I’m sure someone will know

Of course in the car religion ideas such as these are mere heresy

Geez, I want what this guy’s smoking!

Very Busy9:36 am 06 Dec 11

The question is: Why do these halfwits do this time and time again?
The answer is: Because they can!

This is an example of how our laws and judicial system are not working. FFS these pricks kill innocent people.

If our courts can’t get their act together then some mandatory sentencing laws need to do the job for them.

Mang7:11 am 06 Dec 11

Serenace1 said :

The reason accidents occur with drink drivers is because they don’t bother to learn to drive drunk. BAM!

It’s not really the guy’s fault considering there arent any How-to-drive-drunk training courses available.
Were to blame for sending our poor drunk drivers out there blind.

farnarkler8:46 pm 05 Dec 11

Surely this bloke deserves a few months (at the very least) behind bars. Why isn’t it that once a person does it ten times, they do time?

Hanksinatra8:45 pm 05 Dec 11

car culture is so ingrained. it is related to “road safety” which is almost a null concept without cars. what about “transport safety” as a theme? Of course there would be no cars and probably limited drunk in charge of a vehicle legislations. Anyway, do more people die from errant drink drivers or from drink driving laws in our car satisfaction designed cities? Are those who die this way more or less innocent than others? I’m sure someone will know

Of course in the car religion ideas such as these are mere heresy

jcitizen8:23 pm 05 Dec 11

matjones said :

does this guy still have his license? and if so, why?

he drinks red wine with at least one of the female Magistrates. I saw him on at least one occasion in a club at Belconnen in the early hours of the morning.

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