Bay Harbour: September 16, 2020
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Wednesday <strong>September</strong> <strong>16</strong> <strong>2020</strong><br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
BAY HARBOUR<br />
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News<br />
Drink driving: How the numbers<br />
stack up in Banks Peninsula<br />
• By Matt Slaughter<br />
POLICE CHARGED 88 people<br />
with drink driving offences in<br />
Banks Peninsula between 2017<br />
and 2019.<br />
An Official Information Act<br />
request by <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News<br />
has revealed out of eight areas in<br />
Christchurch and Banks Peninsula,<br />
the Sumner and Lyttelton<br />
police stations coverage areas<br />
sit sixth and seventh on the list<br />
of areas where the most people<br />
have been charged for being over<br />
the legal breath and blood alcohol<br />
limits in this time period.<br />
Christchurch central is first<br />
on this list, with officers there<br />
charging 1993 drivers with such<br />
offences, followed by Papanui<br />
with 915 and south Christchurch<br />
with 675.<br />
The legal breath alcohol limit<br />
Breath and blood alcohol<br />
offences by police station<br />
between 2017 and 2019<br />
Christchurch Central<br />
2017 – 713<br />
2018 – 634<br />
2019 – 646<br />
Papanui Police Station<br />
2017 – 358<br />
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CHECKPOINT: Statistics have revealed which areas of<br />
Christchurch the most drink drivers were caught between<br />
2017 and 2019.<br />
in New Zealand is 250mcg/l.<br />
There were 4812 excess breath<br />
and blood alcohol offences in<br />
Christchurch between 2017 and<br />
2019.<br />
The number of drink driving<br />
2018 – 289<br />
2019 – 268<br />
Christchurch South Police<br />
Station<br />
2017 – 250<br />
2018 – 214<br />
2019 – 211<br />
New Brighton Police Station<br />
2017 – 200<br />
offences decreased over this<br />
three-year period. There were<br />
1742 offences in 2017, 1539 offences<br />
in 2018 and 1531 in 2019.<br />
Canterbury Road Policing<br />
Manager Greg Cottam said<br />
2018 – 220<br />
2019 – 238<br />
Hornby Police Station<br />
2017 – 185<br />
2018 – 154<br />
2019 – 130<br />
Sumner Police Station<br />
2017 – 21<br />
2018 – 19<br />
these statistics are promising but<br />
any drink driving at all is too<br />
much.<br />
“Over time we’ve seen a drop,<br />
which is great, but it comes<br />
back to the fact that any drink<br />
driving is one too many and the<br />
potential for serious harm for<br />
other road users is unacceptable.<br />
We have a no-tolerance policy<br />
for alcohol and one is one too<br />
many.”<br />
Meanwhile, in July a police<br />
clamp-down on drink driving<br />
saw them stop and breath test<br />
14,042 Canterbury motorists.<br />
Of these, 68 were over the legal<br />
breath alcohol limit.<br />
They trialled micro-checkpoints<br />
as part of this, which<br />
require as few as one police car<br />
and officer to set up and carry<br />
out the checks.<br />
2019 – 19<br />
Lyttelton Police Station<br />
2017 – 10<br />
2018 – 6<br />
2019 – 13<br />
Airport Police Station<br />
2017 – 5<br />
2018 – 3<br />
2019 – 6<br />
Houses<br />
below cliff<br />
evacuated<br />
• From page 1<br />
The vehicle was “precariously<br />
perched on a pole,” which was the<br />
only thing that saved it<br />
from going over the cliff, said<br />
Lovrich.<br />
The crash prompted fears the<br />
four-wheel-drive vehicle could<br />
fall onto the properties below.<br />
A fire crew from the nearby Diamond<br />
<strong>Harbour</strong> station worked<br />
to stabilise the vehicle and secure<br />
it to the cliff face.<br />
Along with this crew, three police<br />
cars and a St John ambulance<br />
attended.<br />
Ambulance staff treated the<br />
driver at the scene.<br />
He walked away after receiving<br />
treatment and was placed in a<br />
police car.<br />
Several houses below the cliff<br />
were evacuated as a precaution<br />
while the vehicle was removed<br />
about two hours after the crash<br />
and Marine Drive was closed.<br />
How the man crashed was being<br />
investigated, said Lovrich.<br />
A Fire and Emergency NZ<br />
spokesman at the scene said it<br />
appeared the four-wheel-drive<br />
had been driven off the road and<br />
no other vehicles were involved.<br />
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