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Drink-drive family driverless

Posted at 11:22am Monday 02nd Jul, 2012 | By Andrew Campbell andrew@thesun.co.nz

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A Tauranga woman sent out to retrieve the family car after her partner was earlier stopped for drink-driving was found to be more than twice the legal limit with two children in the car.

The woman was stopped by Tauranga Police on Sunday night where she blew twice the legal breath alcohol limit with two children aged eight and nine in the vehicle.

Police breath-test a driver. Photo: File.

Earlier in the day the woman’s partner was pulled over by police driving the same vehicle and found to be over the limit.

Police recognised the car and stopped the woman.

Police say the woman’s partner had sent the woman out in her pyjamas to retrieve the family car that was left on the side of the road after the earlier offence, with two of their four children.

Police say the woman blew 821 micrograms of alcohol per litre of breath. The legal limit is 400 micrograms of alcohol per litre of breath.

Comments

What if

Posted on 13-07-2012 16:51 | By Hess

They were a doctor !!!!!!!

HECTOR

Posted on 10-07-2012 15:57 | By TERMITE

Well no one driving for a while in that house means that perhaps they wil be able to sit at home and contemplate why they are sitting at home and "going no where"! Singapour has a very low crime rate and a very low tolerance for crime as a reult of some harsh laws. Now that is what is needed not this "mambee pambee" stuff that NZ has. Harden up folk, wet bus tickets do not stop the offenders from doing the crime!

GEE! you guys

Posted on 10-07-2012 14:11 | By n8dawg

are judgemental everyone makes mistakes and as for PHAILED and TONYB1 do your research the punitive stuff doesnt work NZ’s justice system is far to punitive

So where do you think

Posted on 04-07-2012 05:42 | By Hector

Our problems, with binge drinking, benifit dependence and crime stem from, well it begins at home, with no standards, discipline or morals, what hope do the poor children have, taking them away from the parents is not the answer, stop them having children is!!!!

Those poor kids...

Posted on 03-07-2012 10:28 | By DRich

Those poor kids, having a couple of plonkers like that for parents

Arrogance

Posted on 03-07-2012 09:27 | By penguin

Sadly, for the rest of the law-abiding community, arrogant and contemptible individuals like some of those in this family will continue to stick the middle finger up thinking that they are the only ones who have rights. One day they might do something that really hurts their family and then they “might (?) learn something. Probably not.

Drink drivers a scourge

Posted on 02-07-2012 15:26 | By Phailed

They put others lives at risk, I couldn’t care less about their own useless lives. Confiscating and selling the car, jail for 2 years, plus lifetime disqualification would be my suggested sentence. More likely it will be something pathetic like community service.

crush it

Posted on 02-07-2012 13:38 | By tonyb1

This is an offence that would warrant crushing the family car, what sort of life do these children have with two drunk parents driving them around ? I hope that CYF are involved as this is a situation that children should not be placed in, no parent of the year award here

How irresponsible

Posted on 02-07-2012 11:39 | By The Sage

Rather than a driving license people should have a license to breed children.

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