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Latest news: Drink driving

Unlicensed 25yo driver caught drink driving twice in one morning

A 25-year-old unlicensed Gilmore man has been charged with multiple offences following him being detected drink driving twice within hours this morning.

Speeding 17-year-old drink driver had passenger in boot

A 17-year-old Conder boy will appear before the ACT Children’s Court in September after he was detected speeding and drink-driving on Saturday night, 7 August.

Police charge drunk driver doing burnouts

A 42-year-old Macgregor man has been charged with drink driving and other offences following a report of burnout activity early on Sunday morning.

Two high-range drink drivers caught

ACT Policing has issued 90-day Immediate Suspension Notices to two high-range drink drivers this past week, one of whom drove into a LPG tanker.

Learner driver, 17, caught speeding and drink driving

A 17-year-old female learner driver has been caught speeding and drink driving following a traffic stop on the Monaro Highway on Thursday night, 20 May.

ACT road use ‘good and bad’ over Easter long weekend

Detecting 41 unregistered vehicles, 167 speeders, four drink drivers, marked a “standard” Easter long weekend on the roads for ACT Policing.

28-year-old man charged in relation to Monaro Highway collision

A 28-year-old man has been charged with manslaughter and other offences relating to a two car collision on the Monaro Highway last month.

ACT Policing catch three high-range drink drivers

ACT Policing has issued three male drivers, aged from 43 to 65, with Immediate Suspension Notices after they recorded high-range blood alcohol levels on Saturday 20 March. All three drivers have had their...

Date in court for two drink drivers caught after date

A boozy Friday night date has ended in a follow-up court date for two people who were both detected driving the same vehicle while over the legal alcohol limit in Gungahlin late on Friday night.

Ricky Stuart set to drop drink driving duo for round one

Canberra Raiders coach Ricky Stuart says Corey Harawira-Naera and Corey Horsburgh have lost their spots for round one.

Weekend arrests for DUI, failing to stop, driving unregistered vehicle

A 37-year-old Kambah man and a 34-year-old Florey woman both faced the ACT Magistrates Court on Saturday morning, 7 November, after their arrests arising from separate driving incidents overnight on 6-7 November.

Drink driver five times over limit steals alcohol, crashes car

A 41-year-old man, who returned a blood alcohol level over five times the legal limit, was arrested in Lyneham on Saturday after allegedly drink-driving, crashing the car he had been driving and...

Police targeting drink driving during footy finals

ACT Policing has warned Canberrans they will be out in large numbers this weekend, conducting targeted and random breath tests ahead of both the NRL and AFL grand finals.

Learner motorcyclist caught drink driving twice in two hours

A learner motorcyclist has had his licence suspended and will face court, after being caught riding while intoxicated twice in two hours in Belconnen over the weekend.

Driver more than four times the limit in carpark collision

A 52-year-old Monash man was more than four times the legal limit when he crashed his ute into another vehicle at a Wanniassa carpark last night, Thursday 24 September. Around 8.20pm, ACT Policing...

Drink driver caught more than seven times the limit

A 37-year-old Wanniassa man who returned a blood alcohol reading seven times the legal limit will face the ACT Magistrates Court today (Friday 18 September) charged with high range drink driving. About 2.30pm...

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