$2000 after PCA
IT was a situation always bound to attract police interest — a car stopped in the middle of a traffic lane at two o’clock in the morning with its hazard lights on.
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And it was just such a situation that has cost a Portland man $2000 and an extended period off the road.
In Lithgow Court charged with mid range PCA and driving while disqualified was P plater 19 year old Thomas Livings.
Police patrolling Barton Avenue at Wallerawang at 2 am on July 19 encountered a vehicle stationary in the westbound lane with its hazard lights and headlights on and its engine running.
There were three men in the car with Livings in the driver’s seat.
He admitted to drinking at a local club during the night and to have driven from McDonalds in Lithgow.
A breath test returned a reading of .110.
Police said the defendant was under disqualification until October this year resulting from a prior mid range PCA conviction at Wyong Court .
Magistrate Fiona Toose fined Livings $1000 on each charge and disqualified him from driving for a further two years.
Drove to jail
LITHGOW Court has been told that a man had not been long out of jail on parole on a similar charge when he was again detected driving while disqualified.
He’s now going back to jail.
Aaron Gardiner, 36, of Bowenfels was observed by police driving a silver Mitsubishi near the intersection of the highway and Caroline Avenue at Bowenfels on June 11.
At the time he was barred from driving until May next year and had been paroled in March after serving six months of a 12 month sentence for driving while disqualified. .
This time magistrate Fiona Toose sentenced him to 15 months imprisonment with a non parole period of 12 months and barred him from driving for a further two years until May 2017.
Driving on Ice
‘A 50 of gas’ has become a $1000 fine for a man charged in Lithgow Court with driving with the drug ‘ice’ in his system.
Police in an unmarked vehicle patrolling the highway at Hartley on February 14 this year observed a Mitsubishi sedan being driven straight ahead in a turning lane then accelerating to more than 100 kph in the 80 zone.
When they stopped the vehicle the driver, 39 year old Michael Treleaven, of Mt Victoria, appeared to be affected by drugs or alcohol .
He admitted to the police that he had consumed ‘a 50 of gas on Saturday night’.
Police translated this as meaning $50 worth of amphetamines’.
A breath test for alcohol proved negative but a subsequent urine test at Lithgow Hospital confirmed the presence of the illicit drugs.
Treleaven was subsequently charged with driving with amphetamine and methylamphetamine in his system.
In the latest Lithgow Court sittings Magistrate Fiona Toose fined the defendant $1000 and disqualified him from driving for six months.
