High range drink driver stopped at Mount Gambier

About 8.40pm on Wednesday 19 August, police were called to Doughty Street to reports of a suspicious car.

Police attended and located a Hyundai sedan and submitted the driver to a breath test which police will allege returned a positive result of 0.244 -nearly five times the legal limit.

The driver a 38-year-old local man was reported for drink driving, issued a 12-month instant loss of licence notice and the car was impounded for 28 days.

He will be summonsed to appear in court at a later date.

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