A night populated with poor decisions has landed a learner driver from Gwandalan in hot water.
At 9.45pm on Wednesday, December 2, Lake Macquarie police officers were patrolling Belmont when they saw a Ford Falcon station wagon exceeding the 50km/h CBD speed limit as it drove north along the Pacific Highway.
The officers stopped the speeding driver, a 24-year-old Gwandalan man, and police allege that before they could speak with him, he jumped out of the driver’s seat and fled north along the footpath.
Police pursued the man, but as the fleeing felon ran around the corner into Maude St, Belmont, he ran straight into four police officers who had just left the station on their way to assist their colleagues.
The offender was arrested and underwent a breath analysis that returned a mid-range reading of .133.
He was then charged with being an unaccompanied learner driver, not displaying L plates and driving a motor vehicle with a mid-range prescribed concentration of alcohol.
Police suspended the man’s NSW learner’s licence and he is due to appear at Belmont Local Court on January 2021.
Source:
Social media, Dec 3
Lake Macquarie Police District