State Highway Patrol officers have impounded a car after a drug driver was picked up in Lucknow this morning.
The white Nissan utility was intercepted on Princes Highway at a pop-up checkpoint about 7.40am.
The driver, who was disqualified from driving, also allegedly tested positive to a preliminary drug test before he refused to accompany police for an evidentiary drug test.
The 30-year-old Nicholson man’s vehicle was impounded for thirty days at a cost of $1,325.
He is expected to be charged on summons with driving whilst disqualified, refusing to accompany for an oral fluid test and using an unsafe vehicle.
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