A North Nowra driver whose car crashed into a NSW Ambulance utility while she was four times the legal blood alcohol limit has been placed on a two-year good behaviour bond and disqualified from driving for nine months.
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Sheila Griffin, 58, pleaded guilty to high-range drink driving after producing a breath analysis of 0.216 after crashing the car she was driving.
Court papers said the Griffin was driving a Ford Festiva on Scenic Drive, Nowra, near the Nowra pool complex, around 3.30pm on June 14 when it collided with the front of the ambulance utility.
No one was injured in the accident but police were called to the scene.
Griffin was subjected to a roadside breath test and returned a positive reading. A breath analysis at the Nowra Police Station returned a reading of 0.216.
She told police she had consumed four wines in the previous two hours and had not eaten any food.
In Nowra Local Court Magistrate Michael Stoddart placed Griffin on a two-year good behaviour bond, disqualified her from driving for nine months and ordered she have an interlock device fitted to her car for four years.
