A man will appear in court next month after crashing his car into a parked vehicle while allegedly intoxicated earlier today.
\nPolice will allege that, about 4.50am (Thursday 17 December 2020), a 35-year-old man was driving his Mazda 6 west along Sandy Point Road, Corlette, when he lost control and crashed into a parked car.
\nHis vehicle rolled and landed on its roof near Foreshore Drive.
\nEmergency services were called and officers from Port Stephens \u2013 Hunter PD attended and spoke with the driver who was not injured.
\nHe was breath tested and provided a positive result. He was arrested and taken to Nelson Bay Police Station where he submitted an alleged breath analysis reading of 0.176 \u2013 in the high-range category.
\nHe was charged with high range PCA, and his licence was suspended.
\nHe is due to appear in Raymond Terrace Local Court on Monday 25 January 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man will appear in court next month after crashing his car into a parked vehicle while allegedly intoxicated earlier today. Police will allege that, about 4.50am (Thursday 17 December 2020), a 35-year-old man was driving his Mazda 6 west along Sandy Point Road, Corlette, when he lost control and crashed into a parked car. … Continue reading “Man charged with high-range drink driving – Port Stephens – Hunter PD”<\/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-9676","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\/9676","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=9676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}