A man has been charged with high-range drink-driving after allegedly being caught more than three times the legal limit with a baby in the car in Sydney’s Northern Beaches yesterday.
About 4.40pm (Thursday 3 February 2022) officers attached to Northern Beaches Traffic and Highway Patrol were patrolling the Curl Curl area when they stopped a Toyota Landcruiser on Garderer Avenue, after observing the driver not wearing his seat belt.
The driver, a 38-year-old man – who was travelling with an eight-week-old baby and a dog at the time – was subjected to a roadside breath test, which returned a positive result.
The man was arrested and taken to Dee Why Police station where he underwent a secondary breath analysis which returned an alleged reading of 0.197.
He was issued a traffic infringement for driver not wear seatbelt properly adjusted/fastened, a Court Attendance Notice for the offence of high range PCA, and his driver’s licence was suspended.
The Collaroy Plateau man was granted conditional bail to appear before Manly Local Court on Wednesday 16 March 2022.
The baby was uninjured.
Anyone with information about this incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers: 1800 333 000 or https://nsw.crimestoppers.com.au. Information is treated in strict confidence. The public is reminded not to report information via NSW Police social media pages.
