Mum arrested in QLD for driving six times over the limit

  • A mother has been arrested after allegedly blowing six times the alcohol limit
  • She was caught driving in Toowoomba, Queensland on Thursday night
  • She was charged with driving under the influence and for lashing out at officers
  • One of her children can be heard asking ‘who’s going to look after us?’ 

A mother has been arrested for allegedly driving while nearly six times over the legal alcohol limit with her young child inside the car while on a late-night pizza run.

The 37-year-old woman was arrested in Toowoomba, Queensland on Thursday night and was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and driving without a licence.

She was also charged for lashing out at the police officers during the arrest.

A mother has been arrested for allegedly driving while nearly six times over the legal alcohol limit with her young child inside the car while on a late-night pizza run

The 37-year-old woman was arrested in Toowoomba, Queensland on Thursday night and was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and driving without a licence

The 37-year-old woman was arrested in Toowoomba, Queensland on Thursday night and was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and driving without a licence

One of her children can be heard asking ‘who is going to look after us?’

The woman allegedly recorded a blood alcohol reading of 0.286 per cent after she was stopped from driving her ute outside her home in Newtown just before midnight.

Footage of the arrest was captured on a police officer’s body camera, and shows the woman audibly slurring as she speaks.

She struggles to put the car in park and pull up the handbrake, before telling the officers she hasn’t had a drink in 12 hours.

Footage of the arrest was captured on a police officer's body camera, and shows the woman audibly slurring as she speaks

Footage of the arrest was captured on a police officer’s body camera, and shows the woman audibly slurring as she speaks

She then told police she had driven out to buy a pizza.

The woman can then be seen trying to kick the officers before she is put in the back of a car and taken to a police station.

Her alcohol reading was the highest taken in Queensland on Thursday. 

The woman can then be seen trying to kick the officers before she is put in the back of a car and taken to a police station

The woman can then be seen trying to kick the officers before she is put in the back of a car and taken to a police station

 

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