A visitor who was caught drink driving after attending a wedding in the region will be off the road for eight months.
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Toni Louise Maxfield, 42, of Crace in the ACT was sentenced for high-range drink driving at Milton Local Court on Thursday, January 17.
Maxfield pleaded guilty to the high-range PCA charge at her first appearance in Milton Local Court.
Facts tendered to the court stated police were patrolling the Princes Highway in a southerly direction about 11.20pm on Friday, November 16.
When police were at the roundabout of Deering Street and the Princes Highway, they saw a maroon Kia travelling in the same direction in front of them.
After negotiating the roundabout the Kia began to drive in the break-down lane for about 100 metres before it turned into the Pigeon House Motor Inn.
Police followed the Kia into the car park. They saw a woman try to get out of the car noticing she seemed to “be having difficulty getting to her feet”.
Maxfield told police she had some wine at a wedding prior to driving to the motor inn. She returned a positive reading to her roadside breath test and was arrested and taken to Ulladulla police station, where she blew 0.213, more than four times the legal limit.
Papers revealed Maxfield had completed the Serious Traffic Offenders Program.
She was convicted and sentenced to period of eight months’ disqualification, ordered to fit an interlock device for 14 months, served a 12-month community corrections order and fined $2,000.