A man has appeared in court charged with being two and a half times the legal alcohol limit while he let a seven year old drive his car on a public street.
Tehere Maihi Maaka was the passenger in a car pulled over by police on Quona Ave in the Auckland suburb of Avondale, at lunchtime last Friday.
A seven-year-old was at the wheel, according to court charge sheets.
Maaka was breath-tested and, police allege, was found to have 1059 micrograms of alcohol per litre of breath. The legal limit is 400mcg.
The 49-year-old Mt Roskill resident appeared at the Auckland District Court yesterday.