Drink Driving
Six-year wait for drink-driver
A Melbourne man has been sentenced for a drink driving incident from almost six years ago.
No conviction for drunk p-plater
A court magistrate says she faced one of her hardest sentencing exercises when deciding the fate of a 22-year-old man who recklessly got behind the wheel of a car after hours of drinking and drug taking, driving four friends around the south-west before crashing.
Unlicensed drink-driver receives correction order
A Colac father caught driving without a licence at more than four times the legal alcohol limit has avoided jail time.
Operation Roadwise targets drivers
Police have caught drivers committing more than 200 offences on Colac Otway and the Surf Coast over Christmas, and the targeted road safety campaign will continue into 2024.
Drunk driver jailed for causing fatal collision
A 26-year-old Irish man will spend the next eight years in prison following a fatal collision which claimed the life of a 19-year-old man in Cobden last year.
Five times over, four-year lesson
A Colac man who crashed while riding an e-scooter at more than five times the legal alcohol limit has learnt his lesson about e-scooter rules, losing his driver’s licence for four years.
Erratic driver blows three times the limit
A Warrnambool man was allegedly driving with a blood-alcohol level almost three times over the limit when he was caught just after 10am Sunday morning.
Drunk driver unlicensed
A man caught driving with a cancelled licence at more than three times the legal blood alcohol limit is off the roads for almost three years.