An Aussie woman who was nine times over the legal limit after she crashed her car has been handed a six-month jail term.
A six-month jail term has been announced for an Aussie women driver who had nine time the legal limit of blood alcohol when she crashed her car.
Heather-Ann Higgins blew the record blood alcohol reading when she crashed her car on Stumpy Gully Road at Moorooduc, on the Mornington Peninsula, on February 15 this year.
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She also lost her licence for five years.
Higgins blew .462 - believed to be an Australian record reading for a female driver and a record nine times over the legal blood-alcohol limit.
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The force of the impact was such that her hat ended up in a tree at least 6m off the ground.
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’’Every day people from all walks of life come before this court charged with drink driving offences,’’ News.com.au quoted Magistrate Ross Betts, as saying.
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