High Range drink driver busted trying to buy grog at Cannonvale shopping centre

Whitsunday police said it was one of the highest readings they’d seen in quite some time.

Police allege the Cannonvale man went to his local shopping centre to buy alcohol at 9.30am. Picture: File

Whitsunday police have thanked the community for dobbing in a drink-driver more than six times the legal limit before anyone was hurt by the man’s “absolutely dangerous” actions.

Members of the public reported the 36-year-old Cannonvale man to police as he pulled up at a local shopping centre bottlo about 9.30am on Monday, August 9.

Officer in charge Senior Sergeant Nathan Blain said police would allege the man was “clearly under the influence of liquor” at the time and a breath test returning “one of the highest readings we’ve seen in quite some time” confirmed this.

The man allegedly had a blood alcohol reading of .0.303 per cent.

Senior-Sergeant Blain thanked those who made the report for allowing police to take the man off the road before lives were put at further risk.

“That time of day, school’s just gone in, people are out and about doing their shopping. It’s absolutely dangerous to be on the roads at that level of intoxication,” he said.

The driver will appear at Proserpine Magistrates Court in September.