Vic: Motorist on wrong side of highway and six times over limit

AAP General News (Australia)
08-07-2001
Vic: Motorist on wrong side of highway and six times over limit

MELBOURNE, Aug 7 AAP - A motorist with six times the legal limit of alcohol in his
blood was arrested while driving on the wrong side of a Melbourne highway.

Police said the 37-year-old man was pulled over after allegedly driving on the wrong
side of Burwood Highway, in East Burwood in Melbourne's east, just before midnight last
night.

A police spokeswoman said the man, from Glen Waverley in Melbourne's east, later blew
a blood alcohol reading of 0.3 per cent.

She said the man had his driver's licence cancelled.

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