Crash driver blew more than five times the limit

A WOMAN who crashed her car into a parked vehicle on a Rangeville street was found to be more than five times the legal limit.

Kirsten Alice Vander Drift had written off her car in the crash on Rowbotham St on June 27 and by the time police arrived on scene she had been taken to Toowoomba Hospital by ambulance, Toowoomba

Magistrates Court heard.

At the hospital police applied a breath test on her which returned a breath/alcohol reading of 0.255, police prosecutor Shelby Larcombe told the court.

However, when a more accurate breath analysis was done a short time later, the 38year-old had returned a reading of 0.262, she said.

The self represented Vander Drift pleaded guilty to driving while under the influence of liquor.

“I was just having a bad day, I shouldn’t have driven,” she told the court.

Noting she had no previous, Acting Magistrate Roger Stark fined her $1200 and disqualified her from holding or obtaining a driver’s licence for 12 months but ordered the conviction not be recorded.

• PAUL Andrew Chaffey, 53, of Toowoomba, was fined $850, disqualified five months, after pleading guilty to driving with a breath/alcohol level of 0.124 while on a provisional licence on May 3.

• CARMEN Gayle Harlock, 50, of Highfields, was sentenced to two months jail, wholly suspended for 12 months, after pleading guilty to drug driving (meth) while disqualified on the New England Highway, Highfields, May 6.

The mother of two had five previous drink driving convictions, three previous drug driving convictions and two previous disqualified driving convictions, the court heard.