Driver with graduated licence charged for alcohol level
0% allowed, RCMP warn
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Posted: Nov 2, 2012 7:06 PM AT
Last Updated: Nov 2, 2012 8:17 PM AT
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RCMP have charged a driver with a graduated licence for breaking the zero-tolerance rule for alcohol for such permits.
The driver, who was pulled over earlier this week for speeding on Route 1 in Pennfield, had consumed "some liquor," Cpl. Jayson Hansen stated in a release.
The driver has been fined $172.50, he said.
New Brunswick drivers with graduated licences are prohibited from consuming any alcohol when they are going to be behind the wheel, said Hansen.
They must have a 0 per cent blood alcohol content, he said.
Violators will receive a one-year suspension and return to the beginning of the graduated licensing period, with no credit for a previously-passed road test or driver training courses, Hansen stressed.
The driver in the case in question was also fined $1,204.50 for driving an uninsured vehicle and had to pay to have the vehicle towed, he said.
No information about the age or sex of the driver has been released.
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