Dean Veivers: Veivers Concreting owner guilty of driving UIL
The owner of a concreting business south of Brisbane has pleaded guilty to high-range drink driving after a Polair helicopter spotted him driving in a cane field nearly four times the legal limit.
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The owner of a small but growing concreting business on the northern Gold Coast has pleaded guilty to high-range drink driving after a Polair helicopter spotted him driving in a cane field nearly four times the legal limit.
Alberton man Dean Alfred Ronald Veivers, 33, was caught on May 23 in bizarre fashion.
Beenleigh Magistrates Court heard a Polair helicopter had been dispatched to the Alberton area in response to an unrelated triple-0 call about 1.40am when it witnessed Veivers driving on a dirt road through the field.
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He was intercepted by ground units and eventually found to have a blood-alcohol content of 0.19 per cent.
Defence lawyer Sinead Garland said her client was driving to offer a lift to a friend he believed to be in trouble, but he accepted he shouldn’t have been so generous in light of how much he had drunk.
She told the court her client’s business, Veivers Concreting, now employs six people.
Veivers has already been without his licence for four months.
Magistrate Clare Kelly ordered he pay a $1000 fine and disqualified him from driving for six months.
A conviction was recorded.