A Whangarei woman who admitted drinking six bottles of beer before driving was found to have almost three times the legal alcohol limit in her system.
Josie Haerengaroa Feleena TAKIMOANA-MAIHI, 27, appeared in Whangarei District Court for sentence on a charge of driving with excess breath alcohol for a third or subsequent time.
She was stopped by police while driving a Mazda van on Station Rd, Kamo at 1am on June 24. Takimoana-Maihi was stopped at a police compulsory breath testing check and a test showed a level of 1141 micrograms of alcohol per litre of breath. The legal limit is 400mcg.
She admitted drinking five bottles of beer before driving and was sentenced to four months' community detention, 12 months' supervision, and disqualified from driving for 15 months for her third drink driving conviction.
Northland has some of the highest rates of drink-driving in the country, particularly repeat offenders, and the Northern Advocate is publishing its "name and shame" list of people convicted of drink driving offences in the region. Also sentenced in Northland's courts recently were: