ACTION Driver twelve times the legal bus driver blood alcohol limit

[Buzz Killington]

A 54-year-old ACTION bus driver will be summonsed to court after he was identified allegedly driving a bus whilst twelve times over the legal limit this afternoon (April 30).

ACT Policing officers were called to Kotara Crescent, Narrabundah about 3.00pm after receiving a request for assistance. Police located the bus on the side of the road and the driver was transported to the Woden Police Station, where he recorded an alcohol reading of 0.256, more than 12 times the legal limit for a bus driver in the ACT.

He will be summonsed to appear in the ACT Magistrates Court on July 16.

No passengers were on the bus at the time of the incident.


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Source

[CanberraTransport]

An ACTION bus driver has been caught operating a bus while allegedly twelve times the legal alcohol limit.

ACT Police officers were called to Kootara Crescent in Narrabundah around three o'clock this afternoon, after receiving a request for assistance.

Police located the bus on the side of the road, and the driver was taken to the Woden Police Station - where he recorded an alcohol reading of 0.256.

He's been summonsed to appear in the ACT Magistrates Court on the 16th July. No passengers were onboard the bus at the time of the incident.

Source: WIN News bulletin

[Buzz Killington]

Bus driver's alcohol convictions
BY NOEL TOWELLLEGAL AFFAIRS REPORTER
17/07/2009 11:32:00 AM
An ACTION bus driver caught drunk behind the wheel of his bus in Canberra's south in April has a 35-year history of drink-driving offences.

Dennis Leslie Wallace, who was picked up by police in Narrabundah on the afternoon of April 30 after they were called by ACTION management, appeared in the ACT Magistrates Court yesterday and pleaded guilty to a Level 4 drink-driving offence.

Wallace, who was subject to a blood alcohol limit of .02 while driving buses, was immediately banned from driving and sent for assessment by the court's alcohol and drug service before being sentenced in two weeks' time.

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/bus-drivers-alcohol-convictions/1570402.aspx