Police are cautioning motorists not to risk getting behind the wheel after consuming alcohol this festive period.
It comes after a female p-plater has been disqualified from driving for 12 months after she recorded a blood alcohol reading of .319 — six times the legal limit for a fully licensed driver.
Police say they intercepted the 22 year-old on Swan Street at Newnham in Launceston on Wednesday night, after a tip off from a concerned member of the public.
She’ll appear in court at a later date.
Police are urging motorists to remember that “driving with alcohol or drugs in your body increases your risk of killing or seriously injuring yourself or someone else in a crash”.
“Inexperience combined with high range drink driving could have had a devastating outcome.”
Police will continue to proactively patrol the roads to ensure everyone is doing the right thing and ask anyone who witnesses dangerous driving behaviours to report to police on 131 444 or Triple Zero (000) in an emergency.
