About 11.10pm on Christmas Day, officers attached to Campbelltown City Police Area Command were called to Glenfield Road, Glenfield, following reports a Ford Territory had crashed into a road sign.
The driver, a 41-year-old Macquarie Fields woman, was subjected to a roadside breath test which returned a positive result.
She was arrested and taken to Campbelltown Police Station where she underwent a secondary breath analysis, which returned a reading of 0.312 – more than five times the legal limit.
The woman’s licence was suspended, and she was issued a Court Attendance Notice (CAN) for driving with high range PCA.
She is due to appear at Campbelltown Local Court on January 24.
This was just one of a significant number of dangerous driving incidents across the state during a road safety enforcement operation over the festive season.
Operation Christmas New Year 2021 commenced at 12.01am on Christmas Eve and concluded at 11.59pm on Monday.
Double demerit points were in force for the duration of the operation for speeding, mobile phone, seatbelt, and motorcycle helmet offences.
The Traffic and Highway Patrol Command, together with local police, patrolled roads across the state, targeting double demerit offences and the Four Ds: drink, drug, dangerous and distracted driving.
Police say the aim was to prevent injury and death.
During the period, police saw a concerning number of dangerous driving incidents, including excessive speed, high-range drink-driving, and reckless driving.
Across the state, police issued 8,414 speed infringements, laid 580 drink-driving charges, attended 624 major crashes, and conducted 230,366 breath tests.
Five people died in crashes over the period, the same number during the operation last year.
In 2021, 269 people lost their lives on NSW roads, compared to 283 the previous year.
