Two Cancelled Drivers caught over legal limit in Canberra
Posted on April 26, 2010 by by valerirojas
ACT Policing has arrested two men after they were allegedly caught driving on cancelled licences and each with an extremely high Blood Alcohol Content (BAC). ACT Police
Around 4.43am police approached a 22-year-old Fraser man behind the wheel of a white Holden Commodore on Ernest Cavanagh Street in Gungahlin. The man’s initial test was allegedly above the legal limit and he was taken to Gungahlin Police Station where he recorded a BAC of 0.234 grams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood; almost 12 times the legal limit for a cancelled driver.
Earlier in the night a 23-year-old Theodore man was found to be driving with an alleged BAC of 0.089 on Bunda Street, Civic. He was stopped just after midnight when police observed him allegedly drive through a stop sign in a silver Subaru. The man was also tested and then transported to the City Police Station where he produced the alleged BAC of 0.089; more than four times over the legal limit for a cancelled driver.
Both alleged offenders were driving on cancelled licences and defined as special drivers limiting them to a BAC of 0.02. They were placed under arrest, transported to the ACT Watch House and bailed to appear before the ACT Magistrates Court at a later date.
ACT Policing is asking all Canberrans to join them to help stop this type of the behaviour to keep the road toll down.
“If any member of the community is aware of anyone who drives when their licence is either disqualified or cancelled, I urge them to contact either police or Crime Stoppers, and we will take action. Getting these drivers off the road before they have a chance to commit other dangerous offences will help reduce our serious injury and fatal collision rate in the ACT,” Superintendent Mark Colbran said today.
