High-range Emu Park drink-driver faces Yeppoon court

A high-range drink-driver busted at the Capricorn Coast initially denied being behind the wheel - but then he realised he couldn’t explain to police how his car got to where it was.

A man was charged with drink-driving after he blew .248 at Emu Park. Generic image.

A man caught drink-driving at the Capricorn Coast with a reading almost five times the legal limit, has been taken off the roads for the next 18 months.

Steven Waylon Delugar, 46, pleaded guilty in Yeppoon Magistrates Court on December 7 to drink-driving - where a number of other people faced court for the same offending.

Police prosecutor Sergeant Darrell Dalton said at 2.05pm on November 23, police spoke to Delugar after being told that he had driven a vehicle.

Sgt Dalton said Delugar initially denied having driven the car but then could not provide an explanation as to how it came to be where it was.

Sgt Dalton said after further questioning, Delugar acknowledged that he had driven the vehicle.

A drink-driver has faced Yeppoon Magistrates Court after he returned a blood alcohol reading of .248. Generic image.

Delugar subsequently returned a blood alcohol reading of .248.

Sgt Dalton said Delugar told police that he had gone to the Pacific Hotel, Yeppoon, earlier in the day where he purchased a carton of beer before driving to a Zilzie residence.

The court heard that Delugar had prior drink-driving offences on his traffic history but those were not in the past five years.

When a self-represented Delugar was asked by Acting Magistrate Michael Bice if he wanted to make any submissions, he said he did not.

Mr Bice told Delugar it was a “very high” reading and at that level, he would have been “getting to the point of having no functionality to drive.”

Mr Bice fined Delugar $1300 and disqualified him from driving for 18 months.