Drink driver returning from bad first date nabbed driving erratically, blows 0.167

A Parkdale woman caught a train into the city hoping to meet the man of her dreams. But after her date kept buying her “drink after drink”, the night became unforgettable for all the wrong reasons.

A drunk driver has blamed a bad date for her blood-alcohol blowout.

A drink-driver has sobbed as a court heard how she blew three times over the legal limit after a booze-fuelled “bad date”.

Olivia Milinski was nabbed by police after witnesses spotted her behind the wheel and weaving down the road, on her way home from an ill-fated night out.

The 26-year-old had started out with good intentions, catching the train from Parkdale to the city to meet her potential love interest.

And after downing at least four glasses of rosé, she again abided by the law, returning to Parkdale by train.

But then she walked to her car from the station, and tried to drive to her home. She never made it, thanks to a police intercept.

Milinski pleaded guilty to drink-driving and failing-to-stay-in-lane charges at Frankston Magistrates’ Court on July 23.

The court heard motorists had seen Milinksi’s car veering across the lanes and swerving into the opposite lane at around 1.30am on November 27 last year.

When police pulled her over she smelt of alcohol and they asked her to do a breath test. She recorded a reading of .167, well over three times the legal limit.

She lost her licence on the spot, telling arresting officers that she had drunk four glasses of rose wine earlier in the night and “thought she would be OK” to drive.

Milinksi wept as she represented herself in court.

She said her actions were “really, really wrong” and something she deeply regretted.

“It’s been a really big lesson for me; I will never ever do it again,” she said.

“I was glad I was pulled over so it didn’t end worse.”

She told the court her date “kept buying me drink after drink”.

“I went back (to Parkdale) by train; I (then) made a bad decision to get in the car.

“I had a really bad night, a bad date, I’m just so sorry.”

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Magistrate Dominic Lennon said “she could have very easily killed someone” and it was “sheer luck” that she wasn’t facing the County Court on a culpable driving charge.

But he said her lack of priors and obvious remorse weighed in her favour.

Milinski was placed on a 12-month good behaviour bond and ordered to do a road trauma awareness course.

She was also disqualified from driving for 20 months, backdated to November.

No conviction was recorded.