Mine worker caught drink driving on Gregory Highway
The Middlemount worker was intercepted by police on a highway near Emerald.
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A Middlemount mine worker was caught drink driving more than 12 hours after he finished drinking.
Luke Francs Brennan, 57, pleaded guilty at Emerald Magistrates Court on June 8 to driving over the general alcohol limit but not over the middle alcohol limit.
Police prosecutor Sergeant Paul Cramp said Brennan was intercepted by police for a roadside breath test about 10.45am on May 20 while driving on the Gregory Highway at Wyuna, just north of Emerald.
Brennan recorded a blood-alcohol content reading of .067 and told police he had been drinking from 5-10pm the following evening but didn’t track what he consumed.
He told police he thought he would be under the limit and called himself a “fool” for thinking that, the court heard.
Magistrate Robert Walker said Brennan must have consumed a considerable amount of alcohol to still have such a reading the following day.
The court heard Brennan was a fly-in-fly-out worker at a Middlemount mine, but lived in New South Wales.
He was fined $400 and disqualified from driving for one month. The conviction was recorded.
Originally published as Mine worker caught drink driving on Gregory Highway
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