A DRUNK driver hit a parked car, mounted a kerb and then slammed into a fence in North Bondi, police allege.
The five-year-old daughter of the driver was in the back seat at the time.
The incident happened at the junction of Clyde and Justus streets about 11.40am yesterday.
Police arrested the driver, a 47-year-old woman, who allegedly recorded a breath test reading of 0.197. The legal limit is 0.5.
She was charged with high-range drink driving, had her licence suspended and is due to front Waverley Local Court on May 24.
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Drunk driver nabbed with someone else’s ID
Brookline police said an accused drunk driver was found with marijuana and someone else’s credit card and out-of-state identification during his arrest last week.
Eric Andrew Raposo, 24, of 110 Malwood Ave., Dracut, was arrested on Jan. 5 and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, possession and retaining a lost credit card, weaving between the lanes and driving a vehicle with defective equipment. He was also issued a $100 civil fine for possession of less than one ounce of marijuana, police said.
Police said that Raposo was driving his truck westbound on Route 9 at about 2 a.m., and was weaving across the road when an officer stopped him in a cruiser. The officer reported that Raposo appeared to have a “glazed confused look about him” and could smell an odor of alcohol.
There was also a woman asleep in the truck’s passenger seat, and she awoke during the traffic stop, according to a police report.
Raposo told police he was headed to Lowell, and an officer began a series of field sobriety checks. Police asked Raposo about his educational background before the test.
“I then asked him if he had graduated high school and he stated no. I asked him what was the last grade he completed and he stated twelfth grade,” according to police.
Based on the results of the sobriety tests, Raposo was arrested for drunk driving and booked at police headquarters.
During a search of Raposo’s truck, police found a sandwich bag containing what they said was marijuana, plus four empty 12-ounce cans of Heineken beer, along with a fifth can that was unopened.
Police said they also found a coin purse in Raposo’s truck that contained a Rhode Island driver’s license and other cards with another person’s name on them. Raposo told police he found the items and notified his boss, but didn’t make any further effort to return the items to their rightful owner.
A police dispatcher contacted the owner of the cards, who said he lost the ID and other property during the post-Christmas snowstorm.
The owner said there was also $100 in cash in the purse, and that someone tried using a credit card from the purse on a purchase of $186 on Jan. 4. The credit card was reported missing on Dec. 28, according to police, but there was no cash.
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Eric Andrew Raposo, 24, of 110 Malwood Ave., Dracut, was arrested on Jan. 5 and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, possession and retaining a lost credit card, weaving between the lanes and driving a vehicle with defective equipment. He was also issued a $100 civil fine for possession of less than one ounce of marijuana, police said.
Police said that Raposo was driving his truck westbound on Route 9 at about 2 a.m., and was weaving across the road when an officer stopped him in a cruiser. The officer reported that Raposo appeared to have a “glazed confused look about him” and could smell an odor of alcohol.
There was also a woman asleep in the truck’s passenger seat, and she awoke during the traffic stop, according to a police report.
Raposo told police he was headed to Lowell, and an officer began a series of field sobriety checks. Police asked Raposo about his educational background before the test.
“I then asked him if he had graduated high school and he stated no. I asked him what was the last grade he completed and he stated twelfth grade,” according to police.
Based on the results of the sobriety tests, Raposo was arrested for drunk driving and booked at police headquarters.
During a search of Raposo’s truck, police found a sandwich bag containing what they said was marijuana, plus four empty 12-ounce cans of Heineken beer, along with a fifth can that was unopened.
Police said they also found a coin purse in Raposo’s truck that contained a Rhode Island driver’s license and other cards with another person’s name on them. Raposo told police he found the items and notified his boss, but didn’t make any further effort to return the items to their rightful owner.
A police dispatcher contacted the owner of the cards, who said he lost the ID and other property during the post-Christmas snowstorm.
The owner said there was also $100 in cash in the purse, and that someone tried using a credit card from the purse on a purchase of $186 on Jan. 4. The credit card was reported missing on Dec. 28, according to police, but there was no cash.
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
30 Million Americans Admit They Drive Drunk
About 30 million Americans a year admit to driving while drunk, and 10 million more say they get behind the wheel when under the influence of illicit drugs, according to new federal research.
On average, 13.2% of all people aged 16 and older drove under the influence of alcohol in the past year, and 4.3% drove while on illicit drugs, says a new survey from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, also known as SAMHSA.
Although the rate of drunk and drugged driving decreased slightly in the past few years, from 14.6% to 13.2%, the problem is still enormous and steps need to be found to reduce it more, researchers say.
Rates of Drunk and Drugged Drivers Drop Slightly
The rate of drugged driving also dropped, from 4.8% of drivers in 2002-2005 to 4.3% in 2006-2009, according to the SAMHSA report. “Thousands of people die each year as a result of drunk and drugged driving, and the lives of family members and friends left behind are forever scarred,” SAMHSA Administrator Pamela S. Hyde, JD, says in a news release. “Some progress has been made in reducing the levels of drunk and drugged driving through education, enhanced law enforcement, and public outreach efforts.”
Still, she says, the nation “must continue to work to prevent this menace and confront these dangerous drivers in an aggressive way.”
Alarming Findings
Gil Kerlikowske, MA, director of National Drug Control Policy, says the survey reveals that “an alarmingly high percentage of Americans” drive with drugs in their systems.
“At a time when drug abuse is on the rise, it is crucial that communities act today to address the threat of drugged driving as we work to employ more targeted enforcement and develop better tools to detect the presence of drugs among drivers,” he says in the news release.
The national survey found significant differences in substance use and driving among the states.
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On average, 13.2% of all people aged 16 and older drove under the influence of alcohol in the past year, and 4.3% drove while on illicit drugs, says a new survey from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, also known as SAMHSA.
Although the rate of drunk and drugged driving decreased slightly in the past few years, from 14.6% to 13.2%, the problem is still enormous and steps need to be found to reduce it more, researchers say.
Rates of Drunk and Drugged Drivers Drop Slightly
The rate of drugged driving also dropped, from 4.8% of drivers in 2002-2005 to 4.3% in 2006-2009, according to the SAMHSA report. “Thousands of people die each year as a result of drunk and drugged driving, and the lives of family members and friends left behind are forever scarred,” SAMHSA Administrator Pamela S. Hyde, JD, says in a news release. “Some progress has been made in reducing the levels of drunk and drugged driving through education, enhanced law enforcement, and public outreach efforts.”
Still, she says, the nation “must continue to work to prevent this menace and confront these dangerous drivers in an aggressive way.”
Alarming Findings
Gil Kerlikowske, MA, director of National Drug Control Policy, says the survey reveals that “an alarmingly high percentage of Americans” drive with drugs in their systems.
“At a time when drug abuse is on the rise, it is crucial that communities act today to address the threat of drugged driving as we work to employ more targeted enforcement and develop better tools to detect the presence of drugs among drivers,” he says in the news release.
The national survey found significant differences in substance use and driving among the states.
READ FULL ARTICLE
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