At 5:00am on Sunday 11 May 2025 our client was driving home from a birthday party held the night before. He had left early in the morning so that he could get home and feed his dog and had only slept a few hours.

On the drive home, our client crashed his car into the lane dividing barrier, where his car came to a complete halt on top of the dividing cables.

The NSW Police, NSW Ambulance and NSW Fire Brigade all attended the scene and shut down the Princes Highway. At the scene, our client was breath tested and returned a reading of 0.10.

Our client was then issues a Court Attendance Notice (CAN) with the offence of mid-range drink driving, contrary to section 110(4)(a) of the Road Transport Act 2013. Our client was facing a criminal record, an automatic disqualification of his drivers licence for 6 months and a 12 month interlock licence, requiring him to install an interlock device in his car.

At Court, our client pleaded guilty to the offence. Despite the serious nature of the offence, the high reading and the fact it involved a serious crash, after hearing our Sydney drink driving lawyer’s submissions the Court was convinced that a criminal conviction was not in the community’s best interest.

Our client was then sentenced to a conditional release order without conviction,  also known as a section 10 (good behaviour bond), which meant that his licence was not disqualified and he did not need to obtain an interlock drivers licence.