Road-pilot escort Terence Flanagan charged with drink driving

A road-pilot escort responsible for warning road users about the presence of oversized vehicles has appeared in court charged with drink-driving. See how a ‘yeti’ mug came into play.

Road-pilot escort Terence Patrick Flanagan, 74, from Mount Low, pleaded guilty in the Ingham Magistrates Court on Thursday to mid-range drink driver after recording a blood-alcohol content reading of 0.112 percent, well over twice the legal limit in Ingham on June 2. Picture: Cameron Bates

A road-pilot escort responsible for warning road users about the presence of oversized vehicles has appeared in court charged with drink-driving.

Terence Patrick Flanagan, 74, from Mount Low, pleaded guilty in the Ingham Magistrates Court on Thursday to mid-range drink driver after recording a blood-alcohol content reading of 0.112 percent, well over twice the legal limit in Ingham on June 2.

Flanagan also made an application for a restricted work licence.

Queensland Police Service prosecutor Stacey Bain said Flanagan’s vehicle was stopped on Townsville Road at 4.29pm on a Friday.

“The defendant showed signs of being intoxicated, he smelled of liquor.”

Flanagan outside the Ingham Magistrates Court on Thursday. Picture: Cameron Bates

She said a “yeti drinking mug that contained spirits and ice was beside the driver’s seat”.

Ms Bain told the court he was married and self-employed as a heavy-vehicle road escort.

He presented the court with an affidavit in support of his work-licence application.

Flanagan was convicted, fined $800 and disqualified from driving for a further four months, taking into account the two months he had already been without a licence.

He was granted a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week work licence.

Originally published as Road-pilot escort Terence Flanagan charged with drink driving