Shocking video has emerged of the moment a car driven by an alleged drink driver careered the wrong way down a Dunedin motorway, crashing into a car carrying an elderly couple.听
Police were called to Dunedin鈥檚 Southern Motorway just before 11pm on Tuesday night after receiving reports of the crash.听
The video, filmed from a car heading northward, shows the car speeding north in the southbound lanes.听
Passengers in the car filming are heard to express concern, noting that the vehicle is 鈥渉ooning鈥 down the road at speed, as the lights of the oncoming car draw nearer.听
Then the wrong-way car slams into the oncoming car before crashing into the barrier and spinning across the road.听
Senior Sergeant Anthony Bond told the听Herald听a 42-year-old woman had entered the motorway at Mosgiel before heading north while in the southbound lane.听
He said a 79-year-old woman and an 80-year-old man were in the other car and noted that all three were lucky to survive, saying the time of the crash and the glancing blow struck meant the results were not worse.听
鈥淚f it was a head-on, it would have probably resulted in a fatal, from any of the three occupants.鈥听
Both cars were badly damaged but Bond said the elderly woman only suffered a minor knee injury and chest pain and the man was uninjured.听
The alleged drink driver gave a breath alcohol level of 890mcg, more than three times over the legal limit, and declined medical treatment.听
She was arrested and charged with drink driving and dangerous driving.听
She also had her licence suspended for 28 days.听
This article was originally published on the NZ Herald .听
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