A Sanctuary Point man caught driving while more than three times the legal limit has been fined $1000 and disqualified from driving for nine months.
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Mark Andrew East, 53, pleaded guilty to high range drink driving in Nowra Local Court.
Court documents said East was stopped by police for a random breath test around 3.45pm on June 29 on Woollamia Road at Woollamia near Huskisson.
After 15 attempts at trying to provide a breath sample to officers East was taken to the Huskisson Police Station for a breath analysis.
There he took another 10 attempts before sufficiently completing the test.
The analysis returned a high range reading of 0.157, which East allegedly disputed, saying he thought “it was wrong.”
He told officers “he reckoned he should be mid range” after having drunk three beers.
East said he’d only had three stubbies of beer while at the Woollamia Boat Ramp and believed he should have been mid range.
The court heard his first drink had been at noon and his last at 3.30pm.
However he did tell police that maybe he had “topped up the 10 beers from the night before.”
East was fined $1000, disqualified from driving for nine months, will have to have an interlock device fitted to his car for two years and was also placed on a 12-month good behaviour bond.