A man has been charged after allegedly drink driving in the state\u2019s Hunter region yesterday.
\nAbout 4.15pm (Tuesday 24 March 2020), Officers from Hunter Valley Police District noticed a Holden Commodore stopped in the middle of the road on the Pacific Way, Muswellbrook.
\nAs police approached the vehicle, it allegedly drove off, before stopping on Tobruk Avenue.
\nThe driver \u2013 a 42-year-old man \u2013 was subjected to a roadside breath test, which returned a positive reading, before being arrested and taken to Muswellbrook Police Station.
\nThe man allegedly returned a breath analysis reading of 0.274 and was charged with high range PCA and assault police.
\nPolice will allege in court that the man claimed he had COVID-19 and intentionally coughed at the police officer when he was asked to submit to a breath test.
\nHe was granted conditional bail and is due to appear at Muswellbrook Local Court on Monday 6 April 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has been charged after allegedly drink driving in the state\u2019s Hunter region yesterday. About 4.15pm (Tuesday 24 March 2020), Officers from Hunter Valley Police District noticed a Holden Commodore stopped in the middle of the road on the Pacific Way, Muswellbrook. As police approached the vehicle, it allegedly drove off, before stopping on … Continue reading “Man charged with high-range drink driving – Muswellbrook”<\/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-5601","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\/5601","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=5601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}