Crash driver banned at three times the limit after drinking port in a coffee mug
A WOMAN who had been drinking coffee mugs of port before crashing through a fence at more than three times the alcohol limit has been fined and banned from driving for 18 months.
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Leonie Joy Haynes, 52, of Hopkins Highway, Purnim, pleaded guilty in the Warrnambool Magistrates Court to drink driving.
Police said that on September 4 last year Haynes had been drinking port from mugs before attempting to drive home about 8.30pm.
She crashed through a fence west of Purnim while travelling north on the Hopkins Highway and became tangled in wire.
