NAMED: Toowoomba’s drink riders and drivers in court
Being over the legal breath/alcohol limit when riding a bicycle was still an offence, as a Toowoomba man found out.
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A BICYCLE was still a vehicle and riding while above the legal breath/alcohol limit was still an offence which brought a fine as a Toowoomba man has discovered.
“It’s a stupid law,” Jackson Allan Smith protested to Toowoomba Magistrates Court only for Magistrate Graham Lee to retort that it was still an offence.
Smith, 22, had been pulled up by a police patrol while riding a bicycle on West St about 2.30am, September 13, the court heard.
He blew a breath/alcohol reading of 0.131.
He pleaded guilty to being over the middle alcohol limit but not over the high alcohol limit.
Mr Lee explained that while he would be fined $300, there would be no disqualification period imposed on his driver’s licence.
Also pleading guilty to drink-driving before the same court were:
JEMMAH Lorraine Cole-Crighton, 22, of Toowoomba, fined $750, disqualified for six months, BAC 0.13, on August 27.
BRENDAN Gary Matthews, 43, fined $650, disqualified three months, for driving on Jellicoe St, 1am, September 13, BAC 0.118.
SHANNON Gene Borgstahl, 27, fined $650, disqualified four months, BAC 0.106, on Oval St, Kleinton, September 26.
SHANE Leonard Seaton, 62, fined $400, disqualified two months, BAC 0.08, Hartwig St, Goombungee, June 27.
JASON James Roe, 49, of Lilydale, fined $400, disqualified one month, BAC 0.077, Gatton-Helidon Road, Grantham, on August 1.
CLARENCE Cubit, 63, fined $300, disqualified one month, BAC 0.059 on Riverview St, Caboolture, July 10.