A woman has been charged after allegedly dangerous and high-range drink driving with an unrestrained child in the car in the Illawarra overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police received multiple calls about 5.40pm yesterday (Friday 11 March 2022) in relation to a blue Holden Trax swerving across the road and mounting gutters while driving north on Shellharbour Road, Warilla. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police commenced inquiries to locate the vehicle. About 7.10pm, officers attached to Lake Illawarra Highway Patrol found the Holden on Northcliffe Drive, Warrawong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the driver allegedly failed to stop as directed, police commenced a pursuit. The low-speed pursuit continued for about 6km before the driver stopped near the intersection of Windang Road and Boronia Avenue, Windang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A five-year-old girl was found unrestrained in the front-passenger seat, physically unharmed but extremely distressed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A 46-year-old woman was arrested and taken to Lake Illawarra Police Station where she returned an alleged breath analysis reading of 0.263.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her driver\u2019s licence was immediately suspended and her vehicle was confiscated for three months, while a child-at-risk notification has been completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The woman has been charged with police pursuit \u2013 not stop \u2013 drive dangerously, high-range PAC, drive with unrestrained child passenger, and not stop when directed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
She was refused bail and is due to appear in the Wollongong Bail Court today (Saturday 12 March 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The girl is being cared for by family members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A woman has been charged after allegedly dangerous and high-range drink driving with an unrestrained child in the car in the Illawarra overnight. Police received multiple calls about 5.40pm yesterday (Friday 11 March 2022) in relation to a blue Holden Trax swerving across the road and mounting gutters while driving north on Shellharbour Road, Warilla. … Continue reading “Woman allegedly blows 0.263 after driving with five-year-old girl in car \u2013 Illawarra\u00a0“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15422,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15421\/revisions\/15422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}