Bundaberg taxi driver Shane Terry Wiggins pleads guilty to drink driving

A Bundaberg taxi driver has had to pay a big fine and has lost his licence for more than a year after blowing 0.224 per cent.

A Bundaberg cabbie has lost his licence after pleading guilty to drink driving in Bundaberg Magistrates Court.

A Bundaberg taxi driver has handed his licence in for 13 months after being caught drink driving.

On Thursday, February 2, Bundaberg Magistrates Court heard that at 6.40pm on January 11, Shane Terry Wiggins was found by police standing by his taxi at his address in Bundaberg.

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Police prosecutor Leon Casey told the court Wiggins told officers he had consumed alcohol earlier that day.

“The defendant was unsteady on his feet, speech and movements were very slow and deliberate and when asked, the defendant stated he’d been drinking earlier that morning,” he said.

Police alleged the possibility that Wiggins could have been working at the time, however, Magistrate John McInnes told the court it was not fair to take it as an aggravating circumstance in the absence of evidence.

Mr Casey said Wiggins had initially refused to give a specimen, but when he did two hours later, it read 0.224 per cent.

Wiggins, who self-represented, told the court he was “really surprised at the reading” as he felt normal apart from being tired.

The defendant told the court he was now unemployed and had sought support from Bridges Drug and Alcohol Service.

It was heard he had pleaded guilty at the earliest possible time and while he’d had a dated history of drink driving, had no criminal history or recent offences.

Mr McInnes sentenced Wiggins to a 13-month licence disqualification and a $1300 fine which he referred to SPER.

A conviction was recorded.