BURDEKIN DRIVERS HEADED TO COURT

DRINK-DRIVING and drugdriving continue to be a problem in the Burdekin region, and another two motorists will soon face the magistrate after police caught up with them.

At 12.50pm on Thursday, September 2, police from the Ayr Road Policing Unit intercepted a vehicle on Home Hill Rd, Ayr.

The driver, a 41-year-old Burdekin woman, was issued with a notice to appear for driving with a prescribed drug in her saliva and is due to appear in the Ayr Magistrates Court on November 15.

In a separate incident, police officers intercepted a vehicle at 1.05am on the Bruce Highway in Ayr.

The driver, a 52-year-old Burdekin woman, was issued a notice to appear for drinkdriving .132.

She is due to appear in the Ayr Magistrates Court on September 20.