High-range drink-drivers front Toowoomba Magistrates Court

The woman blew more than three times the legal limit while driving home. See the list of drink drivers inside.

The 50-year-old woman blew more than three times the legal limit when driving home from a party.

DRIVING home after a getting into an argument at a birthday party has proved costly for a 50-year-old woman who blew a breath/alcohol reading more than three times the legal limit.

Dale Maree Lawton had returned to her home town of Chinchilla for a birthday party on September 11, Toowoomba Magistrates Court heard.

However, after getting into an argument at the party she decided to drive home only to be pulled over by police on Price St about 12.56am the next morning, police prosecutor Sergeant Alister Windsor told the court.

She blew a breath/alcohol reading of 0.165, Sgt Windsor said.

Lawton pleaded guilty to a charge of driving while under the influence of liquor.

Her solicitor Claire Graham, of Skuse Graham Lawyers, told the court her client was a nurse who worked at two hospitals in Toowoomba.

The 50-year-old had relocated to Toowoomba after being assaulted in Chinchilla where she had lived for 47 years, she said.

Her client had already been off the road for one month since the incident, Ms Graham said.

Magistrate Graham Lee ordered the conviction not be recorded and fined Lawton $1050 and disqualified her from holding or obtaining a driver’s licence for the mandatory minimum period of six months.

* MORGAN Thomas Wagner, boiler maker of Toowoomba, told police who pulled him over on Jellicoe St about 9.40pm, September 10, that he had consumed four schooners of XXXX Gold earlier that evening, police prosecutor Bettina Trenear told the same court.

He blew a breath/alcohol reading of 0.152, she said.

He pleaded guilty to driving while under the influence of liquor.

Taking into account he had already been off the road for more than three weeks since the incident, Magistrate Howard Osborne fined Wagner $900 and disqualified him from holding or obtaining a driver’s licence for six months.

* DAVID Andrew Bright, 58, of Toowoomba, was fined $750 and disqualified from holding or obtaining a driver’s licence for seven months after pleading guilty to driving while over the middle alcohol level but not over the high alcohol level after blowing 0.142 on McGregor St, Wilsonton, on September 25.