Lucinda Anne Drennan blows three times legal limit in drive for food, cops licence disqualification from Toowoomba Magistrates Court

A 31-year-old who blew more than three times the legal limit when driving for food in Toowoomba after she crossed two lanes of traffic and mounting a median strip.

A drive to Hungry Jacks for a late night snack has proved an expensive lesson for a 31-year-old woman who was found to be driving at more than three times the legal alcohol limit.

Lucinda Anne Drennan was seen to cross two lanes of Ruthven St before mounting the median strip about 11.57pm, November 19, Toowoomba Magistrates Court was told.

Police officers who approached her car in the early hours of the next morning noted Drennan was slurring her words, police prosecutor Rohan Brewster-Webb told the court.

She blew a breath/alcohol reading of 0.175, he said.

The 31-year-old told police she had been to a function earlier that night and was driving to Hungry Jacks for some food, Mr Brewster-Webb said.

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

Her solicitor Brad Skuse, of Skuse Graham Lawyers, told the court his client was a second year apprentice boilermaker and lived in Haden.

On the night in question his client was staying in Toowoomba and had been to a Christmas function and had been driving to get food, he said.

His client was “extremely embarrassed” by her actions, he said.

Magistrate Clare Kelly ordered the conviction not be recorded and fined Drennan $900 and disqualified her from holding or obtaining a driver’s licence for six months.