A Sydney woman has pleaded guilty to drink driving at nine times the alcohol limit with a suspended licence and her three-year-old son in the car.
Amber Lukunic, 44, was caught driving at 100km/h speed in an 80km/h zone on the Princes Highway in the city’s south on March 27, The Daily Telegraph reported.
The Thirroul mother was found to have a blood alcohol level of 0.182, nine times the 0.02 limit for already suspended drivers.
According to the outlet, police stated that Lukunic had travelled from Thirroul to Menai to “pick her three-year-old son up from childcare and was on her way home”.
Agreed police facts stated: “Her reason for driving was that there was no-one else than could collect her child.
“She had a strong smell of intoxicating liquor on her breath, she had watery, glazed eyes, her speech was slurred, and she was unsteady on her feet as she carried her son into the police station.”
Lukunic told police officers she had one glass of white wine before driving.
She pleaded guilty to high range drink driving and driving suspended, and is set to complete the traffic offenders’ program ahead of sentencing at Sutherland Local Court on May 28.
Family and Community Services was notified after her young son was discovered in the back seat.
Lukunic’s licence was suspended in February over a lower-range drink driving offence in Wollongong. Her other prior offences included three counts of speeding in school zones and one count of not stopping at a red arrow.
