A Hawke's Bay doctor has admitted drink-driving for a third time — on the latest occasion at more than five times the legal limit.
Dr Ian Ross McDonald, 55, appeared in the Napier District Court yesterday charged with drink driving for a third time.
The practising doctor, registered with the Medical Council of New Zealand, entered a guilty plea through his lawyer Russell Fairbrother in a brief appearance just before midday.
The police summary of facts state McDonald was stopped at about 10.30pm on Saturday, November 18 last year while driving a Mercedes in the Pak'n Save car park off Station St in Napier.
When he showed signs of recent alcohol intake when spoken to and in a subsequent breath test, he blew a reading of 1352 micrograms of alcohol per litre of breath.