{"id":9615,"date":"2020-12-14T05:29:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T05:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=9615"},"modified":"2020-12-14T05:29:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T05:29:06","slug":"man-charged-with-high-range-drink-driving-after-driving-into-garden-bed-tanilba-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/12\/14\/man-charged-with-high-range-drink-driving-after-driving-into-garden-bed-tanilba-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with high-range drink driving after driving into garden bed \u2013 Tanilba Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged with high-range drink driving after allegedly being caught almost six times the legal limit at Port Stephens.<br \/>\nAbout 4.30pm yesterday (Sunday 13 December 2020), police were alerted to a Izuzu D-Max utility allegedly being driven erratically throughout the Tanilba Bay area.<br \/>\nA member of the public approached the vehicle after it mounted the kerb in a carpark on President Wilson Walk and stopped atop a garden bed. The keys were removed from the ignition and police were notified.<br \/>\nOfficers attached to Port Stephens-Hunter Police District attended a short time later and spoke with the driver, a 49-year-old Mallabula man.<br \/>\nThe driver was subjected to a roadside breath test, returning a positive result. He was arrested and taken to Raymond Terrace Police Station, where he underwent a breath analysis which allegedly returned a reading of 0.288.<br \/>\nHe was issued with a Court Attendance Notice for the offence of high-range PCA. His licence was also suspended.<br \/>\nThe man is due to face Raymond Terrace Local Court <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/3\">on Monday 11 January 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged with high-range drink driving after allegedly being caught almost six times the legal limit at Port Stephens. About 4.30pm yesterday (Sunday 13 December 2020), police were alerted to a Izuzu D-Max utility allegedly being driven erratically throughout the Tanilba Bay area. A member of the public approached the vehicle after &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/12\/14\/man-charged-with-high-range-drink-driving-after-driving-into-garden-bed-tanilba-bay\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man charged with high-range drink driving after driving into garden bed \u2013 Tanilba Bay&#8221;<\/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-9615","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\/9615","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=9615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}