Traffic offenders who faced Yeppoon and Rockhampton courts
A man sinking a few beers before driving to a campsite plus an unlicensed driver with ‘one of the worst traffic histories’ ever seen for a 29yo are just two of 11 offenders who faced court.
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The following people pleaded guilty recently in Yeppoon and Rockhampton courts to traffic offending on the region’s roads.
Traffic conviction recorded
Adam William Griffin, 49
Adam William Griffin blew a reading of .053 after he was intercepted by police on Limestone Creek Road on March 8.
Griffin pleaded guilty in Yeppoon Magistrates Court on April 13 to drink driving.
With no prior offending of this sort, Griffin, who operates a transport and earthmoving business, was fined $400 and disqualified from driving for one month.
Ryan James Houston, 34
Ryan James Houston blew a reading of .171 after he was intercepted by police on Mary Street, Yeppoon, on April 2.
Houston pleaded guilty in Yeppoon Magistrates Court on April 13 to drink driving.
The court heard that Houston came to the attention of police on the night of his offending when they saw him driving with no lights on.
With no prior offending of this sort, Houston, a business director, was fined $1000 and disqualified from driving for six months.
Adrian Bruce Stevens, 48
Adrian Bruce Stevens blew a reading of .076 after police intercepted him on Braithwaite Street, Yeppoon, on February 27.
Stevens pleaded guilty in Yeppoon Magistrates Court on April 13 to drink driving.
With no prior offending of this sort, Stevens was fined $400 and disqualified from driving for two months.
He successfully applied for a restricted licence for his job as a garage door technician.
Brendan Fredrick Jones, 28
Brendan Fredrick Jones blew a reading of .055 after police intercepted him on Fred Lawn Drive, Yeppoon, on April 1.
Jones pleaded guilty in Yeppoon Magistrates Court on April 13 to drink driving.
With no previous offending of this sort, Jones, a truck driver in the mining industry, was fined $350 and disqualified from driving for one month.
Mary Green, 42
Mary Green blew a reading of .071 after police intercepted her on Cordingley Street, Yeppoon, on March 31.
Green pleaded guilty in Yeppoon Magistrates Court on April 13 to drink driving.
With no offending of this type in the past five years, Green was fined $350 and disqualified from driving for one month.
Cameron Wallace Kehl, 43
Cameron Wallace Kehl had a blood-alcohol content reading of .198 when he was intercepted driving along the Capricorn Highway at Blackwater on March 1 at 5.51pm.
Kehl pleaded guilty to the single drink driving charge in Rockhampton Magistrates Court on April 6.
Police prosecutor Senior Constable Sarah Rowe said Blackwater police received a job to be on the lookout for a vehicle which was headed in a westbound direction along the Capricorn Highway.
Senior Constable Rowe said about 2km from Blackwater, police saw the vehicle travelling westbound and swerving into each side of the road behind another vehicle.
She said Kehl told police he was driving from his home in Bouldercombe to camp in Blackwater and that he had had a couple of drinks of beer at home before he left.
Defence lawyer Emma Locke said the offence had made her client realise he did have a significant issue with alcohol that was in urgent need of addressing.
Ms Locke said Kehl, who worked in the mining industry as a multiskilled operator, had engaged with a number of counselling and alcohol services, including the Rockhampton Alcohol and Other Drugs Service.
Kehl was fined $1200 and disqualified from driving for nine months.
Grant Allan Johnson, 60
Grant Allan Johnson was unlicensed when he was intercepted driving along Brown Street, Rockhampton, on March 3 at 8.52pm.
Johnson pleaded guilty in Rockhampton Magistrates Court on April 6 to one count each of driving without a licence and possessing dangerous drugs.
Police prosecutor Senior Constable Sarah Rowe said Johnson told police he did not have a driver’s licence and that checks revealed his licence was disqualified from January 25 to April 24.
Senior Constable Rowe said Johnson and the vehicle were detained for a search and that during a pat down search of Johnson police found a small plastic bag containing 2.65g of marijuana.
Defence lawyer Samantha Legrady said her client wanted the court to know how sorry he was.
Johnson was fined $1150 and disqualified from driving for two years.
No criminal conviction was recorded for the drug offence.
Jared Andrew Kyto Thomson, 28
Jared Andrew Kyto Thomson had marijuana in his system when he was intercepted driving along Moores Creek Road, Rockhampton, on January 5 at 5.44pm.
Thomson pleaded guilty to the single drug driving charge in Rockhampton Magistrates Court on April 6.
He was fined $550 and disqualified from driving for three months.
Nathan Adam Johnson, 22
Nathan Adam Johnson blew a reading of .125 after he was intercepted by police on Cedar Avenue, Taranganba, on March 15.
Johnson pleaded guilty in Yeppoon Magistrates Court on March 30 to drink driving, as well as driving an unregistered and uninsured vehicle.
Krystle Maree Van Vegten, 33
Krystle Maree Van Vegten pleaded guilty in Yeppoon Magistrates Court on March 30 to unlicensed driving, driving while over the no alcohol limit, and driving without an interlock device.
The court heard that Van Vegten blew a reading of .036 after police intercepted her driving on March 2, on Robinson Street, Taranganba.
At the time, Van Vegten was subject to a zero alcohol limit and she was required to have an interlock device fitted to her vehicle.
A solicitor said Van Vegten, who worked in the disability support sector, had not been able to afford an interlock device and she wrongly thought she was subject to the .050 blood alcohol limit.
Van Vegten was fined $850 and disqualified from driving for six months.
Michael Alexander Clark, 29
Michael Alexander Clark was caught driving while demerit point suspended on Yeppoon Road on March 7.
Clark pleaded guilty in Yeppoon Magistrates Court on March 30 to unlicensed driving.
The court heard that Clark had a seven-page traffic history which Magistrate Cameron Press said was one of the worst traffic histories he had seen for a 29-year-old.
Mr Press fined Clark $450 and disqualified him from driving for six months.
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