Two men will face court after being detected high-range drink driving within 15 minutes of each other at Tamworth at the weekend.
\nAbout 7.40pm on Sunday (28 October 2018), police stopped a silver Mitsubishi Lancer sedan on Duri Road, South Tamworth.
\nThe driver, a 21-year-old man and holder of a provisional licence, was arrested after a positive roadside breath test.
\nHe returned an alleged subsequent breath analysis reading of 0.177 and was charged with High Range PCA.
\nThe man’s licence was suspended and he is due to appear at Tamworth Local Court on 19 November 2018.
\nAbout 15 minutes later, police stopped the same car on Duri Road, South Tamworth, after it was observed driving with no taillights.
\nA different driver, also a 21-year-old man, was arrested after he returned a positive roadside breath test. He subsequently returned an alleged breath analysis reading of 0.162 at Tamworth Police Station.
\nFurther checks revealed his provisional 2 licence was disqualified until October 2022.
\nHe was charged with High Range PCA (second subsequent offence) and drive while disqualified.
\nThe man was granted conditional bail and will appear at Tamworth Local Court on Monday 19 November 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Two men will face court after being detected high-range drink driving within 15 minutes of each other at Tamworth at the weekend. About 7.40pm on Sunday (28 October 2018), police stopped a silver Mitsubishi Lancer sedan on Duri Road, South Tamworth. The driver, a 21-year-old man and holder of a provisional licence, was arrested after … Continue reading “Drink drivers detected 15 minutes apart – Tamworth”<\/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-266","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\/266","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=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}