A person has been charged with multiple offences after being caught driving drunk not just once or twice, but three times in less than a week.
A “disappointed” Inspector Adam Spencer said the person was caught by police on patrol across the north-west over the long weekend.
He said that Western District police have charged a total of nine individuals with drink driving and six others with driving while disqualified since Friday.
“Drink drivers were caught all over the Western District, [from] Devonport, Burnie, Gowrie Park and Wynyard,” he said.
“One of the people caught has now been charged with drink driving three times since Wednesday and another was caught for the third time this year.”
Several were disqualified from driving or operating an unregistered vehicle, while two others were speeding at the time they were caught.
“These people are putting other road users at risk and it’s just not good enough,” Spencer said, while praising drivers in popular tourist spots including the Arthur River, Temma and Macquarie Heads.
“Our police were out and about in these communities on the tracks and beaches and they were very pleased by driver behaviour in these areas,” he said.
“We appreciate that most of the Tasmanian community do the right thing on our roads. The problem is the minority doing the opposite, puts us all at risk.”
“You can expect that police will be on the road day and night and will hold those people to account for their actions.”
