The warning to ‘not drive under the influence’ is still not getting through to the region’s drivers with more arrests less than a week after Mudgee made the top ten drug driving towns in NSW.
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NSW Police statistics listed Mudgee as seventh in the state during the last financial year.
Mudgee Local Area Command has described the situation as ‘a real concern’ after nine drivers were arrests over the weekend for alcohol and drug offences.
“Drivers just don’t seem to understand their actions can have serious consequences not just for themselves but for other families.”
Despite earlier messages and warnings about being caught, over the weekend five people were detected driving a vehicle under the influence of alcohol.
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Police also detected four drivers who returned positive detection to driving a vehicle with an illicit drug present in their blood.
- 27-year-old Metford male tested positive to alcohol at the Court and Market Street intersection at 2.20am on Sunday.
- 28-year-old Mudgee female tested positive to alcohol on Perry Street at 12.30am on Saturday.
- 61-year-old Mudgee male testing positive to alcohol at the Cox and Mortimer Streets intersection at 8:15pm on Saturday.
- 24-year-old Mudgee male tested positive to alcohol on Church Street at 1:55am on Saturday.
- 42-year-old Mudgee female tested positive to alcohol on the Castlereagh Highway at 10:55pm on Friday.
- 37-year old Mudgee female tested positive to alcohol, cannabis and methamphetamine on Mortimer Street on Friday.
- 47-year-old Cooks Gap male tested positive to cannabis and methamphetamine at 10:55am on Sunday.
- 28-year-old Piambong male tested positive to cannabis and methamphetamine on Church Street at 3:20pm on Saturday.
- 34-year-old Coolah male tested positive to methamphetamine on Mortimer Street at 2:55pm on Sunday.
Mudgee LAC has appealed for everyone to ”regard this is a problem and do their bit to prevent these people getting behind the wheel”.
“Please ensure everyone has a Plan B”.
- Crime stoppers: 1800 333 000
