A man has been charged with mid-range drink-driving following a pursuit near Newcastle this morning.
\nJust before 1.20am today (Tuesday 19 February 2019), officers from the Traffic and Highway Patrol Command were conducted stationary speed enforcement duties on the M1 motorway at West Wallsend, when they detected a Lexus sedan allegedly travelling at 178km\/hr in a 110km\/hr area.
\nThe driver, a 39-year-old man from Neutral Bay, allegedly failed to stop as directed by police and a pursuit was initiated.
\nThe man stopped the sedan a short distance away on the George Booth exit ramp and allegedly returned a positive roadside breath test.
\nHe was arrested and taken to Toronto Police Station where a subsequent breath analysis returned an alleged reading of 0.109.
\nThe man was charged with police pursuit \u2013 not stop \u2013 drive recklessly, drive with mid-range PCA, and exceed speed greater than 45km\/h.
\nThe man was granted bail to appear at Toronto Local Court on Tuesday 9 April 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has been charged with mid-range drink-driving following a pursuit near Newcastle this morning. Just before 1.20am today (Tuesday 19 February 2019), officers from the Traffic and Highway Patrol Command were conducted stationary speed enforcement duties on the M1 motorway at West Wallsend, when they detected a Lexus sedan allegedly travelling at 178km\/hr in … Continue reading “Man charged with mid-range drink-driving following pursuit near Newcastle”<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","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=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}