A man has been charged with high-range drink driving after allegedly crashing his car into a power pole at Bonnells Bay, in the Lake Macquarie area.
\nAbout 4.20pm (Wednesday 2 September 2020), emergency services were called to Princes Street, Bonnells Bay after receiving calls a car had crashed into the pole, bringing down live wires.
\nOfficers from Lake Macquarie Police District spoke with the driver, a 36-year-old man, who allegedly threatened them.
\nPolice restrained the man and conducted a roadside breath test, which provided a positive result.
\nThe man was arrested and taken to Toronto Police Station where he was subjected to a breath analysis which returned an alleged reading of 0.185.
\nThe man was charged with high-range PCA, driver refuse to disclose identity, drive whilst licence suspended, and resist arrest.
\nHe was released on strict conditional bail and is due to appear at Toronto Local Court on Tuesday 13 October 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has been charged with high-range drink driving after allegedly crashing his car into a power pole at Bonnells Bay, in the Lake Macquarie area. About 4.20pm (Wednesday 2 September 2020), emergency services were called to Princes Street, Bonnells Bay after receiving calls a car had crashed into the pole, bringing down live wires. … Continue reading “Suspended driver charged with high-range drink driving – Lake Macquarie”<\/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-8017","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\/8017","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=8017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}