Barton Highway drink-driver was eight times the blood alcohol limit: police

Updated December 28 2020 - 3:16pm, first published 12:23pm
A driver was charged with high range drink driving by officers from The Hume Highway Patrol on December 27. Picture: Traffic and Highway Patrol Command - NSW Police Force Facebook page.
A driver was charged with high range drink driving by officers from The Hume Highway Patrol on December 27. Picture: Traffic and Highway Patrol Command - NSW Police Force Facebook page.

A 36-year-old Canberra woman was eight times the legal blood alcohol limit when she drove her car into a ditch on the Barton Highway just over the ACT-NSW border: police say.