Somerville Highway Patrol officers have caught a drink driver following a collision in Hastings last night. Officers were called to the corner of Victoria Street and Spring Street to reports of an Audi Q5 colliding with a parked truck about 8:15pm. The driver of the Audi, a 46-year-old woman, underwent a preliminary breath test which returned a positive result. She accompanied police to a local station and underwent an evidentiary breath test where she returned an alleged reading of 0.263. She was issued an immediate driving ban and has been charged on summons with exceeding the prescribed content of alcohol…
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Somerville Highway Patrol members were left severely disappointed when a driver blew almost five times the legal alcohol limit after colliding with another vehicle in Dromana last night. To make matters worse two children under 10 were passengers in the alleged offending vehicle. Emergency services were called to reports a Mitsubishi Wagon had failed to navigate a turn onto Boundary Road and crashed into an oncoming vehicle about 5.30pm. The driver of the Mitsubishi, a 41-year-old Dromana woman tested positive for alcohol at the scene and subsequently returned an evidentiary breath test reading of 0.234. Fortunately, the collision resulted in…