Nikisha Green faces Warwick Magistrates Court for high range drink driving

A Warwick bartender who crashed her car while drunk made full admissions to police before blowing a reading three times the legal limit. Read what she confessed to police.

Nikisha Green leaving Warwick Magistrates Court on August 21

A Warwick woman made an upfront confession to police after crashing her car while three times the legal alcohol limit.

Nikisha Green told police after being busted on the evening of August 1 “I’m not going to lie, I’m drunk”.

The 24-year-old was intercepted after crashing her car on Ogilvie Rd, following the Maryvale woman smashing her car into a stationary vehicle, so severe she was sure her car was “written off”.

Warwick Magistrates Court was told police arrived at the scene seeing the bartender crying next to her vehicle, who confessed to officers “she was drunk, I was just distracted”.

Following a roadside test, the woman blew a reading of 0.179, more than three times the legal limit.

Green told the magistrate there was “no excuse” for her offending, and she had “learnt her lesson the hard way”.

Nikisha Green leaving Warwick Magistrates Court on August 21

Magistrate Virginia Sturgess noted the irony of the woman being a bartender, and that she should know about “the responsible service of alcohol and intoxication”.

“We all know combining alcohol and driving is a big mistake, but also makes it worse that you’re emotional upset, even without the alcohol if you’re upset you wouldn’t be paying utmost attention,” Ms Sturgess told Green.

“You should count yourself extremely fortunate that no one was injured or killed, and that the worst damage was done to your car.”

Green pleaded guilty to one charge of driving under the influence on Monday, August 22 in Warwick Magistrates Court.

The woman was fined $1000, and suspended from driving for nine months. A conviction was recorded.