Girls weekend away comes to crashing end after Queensland woman allegedly crashes car while six times over legal drinking limit

A girls weekend away in Queensland came to a crashing end when a woman allegedly struck a pole with her car then returned a roadside breath test more than six times above the legal alcohol limit.
Police allege a Mudgeeraba woman, 50, hit a telegraph pole in her Mazda CX-8 then continued driving before she was stopped by concerned bystanders.
Police found the woman and her damaged car across the road from a police station, and conducted a roadside breath test at Mount Tambourine about 8.30am on Sunday.

Footage from the incident shows an officer ask the woman sitting on a roadside kerb what happened to her damaged car.
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Sign up“I had a girls weekend away,” she replies.
“My girlfriends, they had way more beverages than me.”
The woman then confesses she had “definitely” been drinking the night before when asked by an officer.
“I thought I’ll just get some breakfast,” she says in the video.
“Oh gosh, it was a bit of a mixture. Oh god, I’m gonna blow over.”


The officer asks the woman to blow into the device then promptly tells her there is a problem.
“You’re driving around, you’re crashing your car and this device indicated to me that you’re over the legal limit to drive,” he said.
Police took the woman across the road to the North Tamborine Police Station where she allegedly blew 0.303 per cent — six times the legal limit.
She immediately had her licence suspended and was charged with driving under the influence of liquor.
The woman is due to appear in Beaudesert Magistrates Court on February 3.
Originally published as Girls weekend away comes to crashing end after Queensland woman allegedly crashes car while six times over legal drinking limit
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