A 17-year-old driver has been handed multiple charges after being caught allegedly drink driving with seven passengers at the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n
The provisional driver was pulled over by police on Ridgevale Drive at Helensvale just before 2am on Wednesday after being seen drifting between lanes.<\/p>\n
Police said officers discovered three unrestrained passengers sitting in the rear tray of the ute.<\/p>\n
Roadside breath testing allegedly indicated a breath alcohol reading of 0.022 per cent, exceeding the limit for a P1 licence holder.<\/p>\n
Police bodycam footage shows the driver being questioned about why he was driving with so many passengers while over the alcohol limit.<\/p>\n
“We didn’t want to pay for an uber,” the teenager told police.<\/p>\n
Police also made one of the passengers pick up a fast food drink that had been allegedly tossed out of the vehicle just before it was pulled over.<\/p>\n
The 17-year-old has been charged for carrying passengers in the tray of the vehicle as well as driving over the alcohol limit.<\/p>\n
He was also issued traffic infringement notices totalling $966 for multiple offences.<\/p>\n
He is expected to face the Southport Children’s Court on September 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old driver has been handed multiple charges after being caught allegedly drink driving with seven passengers at…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1009987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,165330,22236,404416,404418,50,404417,4797,4798,404419,3983],"class_list":["post-1009986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-australia","tag-drink-driving","tag-gold-coast","tag-helensvale","tag-maccas-run","tag-news","tag-p-plater","tag-qld","tag-queensland","tag-seven-passengers","tag-teenager"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117120062896815351","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1009987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}