A WOMAN caught drink driving with a blood alcohol reading more than four times the legal limit has been put off the road for eight months and placed on a good behaviour bond.
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Katrina Sericchi, 36, of Alcheringa Road in Kelso did not appear to answer a charge of high range PCA, and magistrate Michael Allen dealt with the matter in her absence.
Sericchi was stopped by police in Browning Street on December 30 last year following a complaint about her manner of driving in Durham Street a short time earlier.
Highway patrol officers saw Sericchi’s car travelling south on Stewart Street and she was pulled over a short time later after turning into Browning Street.
As she pulled officers saw her look at police through the driver’s side rear vision mirror, causing her to veer to the right across unbroken lines to the wrong side of the road and into the path of an oncoming vehicle.
The other driver took evasive action to prevent a crash while Sericchi stopped her car near the kerb.
Police informed her of their highway patrol car’s in house video recording system, she produced her driver’s licence and while speaking with police the noticed her speech was slurred and broken. He eyes were seen to be watery and glazed and her posture and movement was sluggish.
Police asked if she had been drinking and she said she’d had her last drink an hour earlier. A breath test produced a positive result before a breath analysis at Bathurst police station recorded a reading of 0.225.
Mr Allen disqualified Sericchi from driving for eight months, in addition to a 24-month interlock order. She was also placed on a 15-month Section 9 Bond.
