Forty-two drivers in the ACT have been caught speeding, with several high-range speeding offences detected during the Territory’s Easter double demerit point police crackdown.
On Saturday, a 28-year-old Evatt woman was detected driving at 110km/h in a 60km/h zone in Aranda. This driver informed police she was on her way to work, but not running late when stopped by police.Â
She will be fined $1841 and accrue 12 demerit points on her licence, which is double the usual six-point penalty.
Three drink-drivers were caught by police, including a 39-year-old Wanniassa man who recorded a blood-alcohol-reading of 0.198 after a single-vehicle collision in Wanniassa about 5.25pm on Saturday; a 15-year-old who returned a reading of 0.107 after a collision between a car and a house in Kambah about 11.10pm on Saturday; and a 35-year-old Downer man who recorded 0.167 in a roadside test after he was intercepted by police on William Hovell Drive. Â
“Drivers are reminded not to drink and drive, and that while for most drivers the blood alcohol limit is 0.05%, for provisional, probationary and learner licence holders the limit is zero,” ACT Policing said in a statement.
“Further, an unlicenced person choosing to drive is committing an additional offence if they exceed zero blood-alcohol.”
