AAP General News (Australia)
12-30-2007
Qld: Motorists still driving drunk, too fast: police
Queensland police have again expressed their dismay over the number of drivers breaking
the law these holidays.
Across the state yesterday police breath-tested 12 thousand 782 motorists .. and found
115 to be over the limit.
A total of two thousand and 67 people were caught speeding and 82 were caught not wearing
their seatbelts.
There were 12 traffic incidents in which 19 people were injured.
And four people have been killed on the state's roads .. the latest an 18 year-old
man who crashed his mountain bike into a tree at Summerholm .. west of Brisbane yesterday.
One of the drivers nabbed by police was a 31-year-old woman in Emerald .. in Central
Queensland .. who was allegedly more than three times over the blood alcohol limit ..
and had two children .. aged five and eight .. in the car.
EDS: AAP's Xmas/New Year road toll figures are for the period 0001 December 21 to 2359
January 4. Some state and territory police forces may use different road toll periods.
AAP RTV rm/sw/jmt
KEYWORD: TOLL QLD (BRISBANE)
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