A WOMAN was caught driving at nearly five times the legal blood alcohol limit in Black Rock last week.
At 9.45am on 27 October, police were called to a petrol station on Balcombe Road. A woman had allegedly crashed into metal bollards protecting a petrol bowser.
Police allege that when they arrived the woman was trying to get back in her car.
A preliminary breath test was administered, and the woman was taken back to Moorabbin police station. There she returned a blood alcohol reading of 0.234 on her evidentiary breath test.
Police allege that the woman’s car contained multiple empty alcohol bottles.
The woman’s licence was suspended for a year, and her car was impounded for a month. Police say they have “assisted her with health referrals regarding her drinking”.
First published in the Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News – 4 November 2020