{"id":860425,"date":"2026-08-19T04:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T04:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/860425\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T04:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T04:58:09","slug":"teen-charged-after-allegedly-drink-driving-with-seven-passengers-on-the-gold-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/860425\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen charged after allegedly drink driving with seven passengers on the Gold Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 17-year-old driver has been handed multiple charges after being caught allegedly drink driving with seven passengers at the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The provisional driver was pulled over by police on Ridgevale Drive at Helensvale just before 2am on Wednesday after being seen drifting between lanes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police said officers discovered three unrestrained passengers sitting in the rear tray of the ute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Roadside breath testing allegedly indicated a breath alcohol reading of 0.022 per cent, exceeding the limit for a P1 licence holder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police bodycam footage shows the driver being questioned about why he was driving with so many passengers while over the alcohol limit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;We didn&#8217;t want to pay for an uber,&#8221; the teenager told police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police also made one of the passengers pick up a fast food drink that had been allegedly tossed out of the vehicle just before it was pulled over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The 17-year-old has been charged for carrying passengers in the tray of the vehicle as well as driving over the alcohol limit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He was also issued traffic infringement notices totalling $966 for multiple offences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He is expected to face the Southport Children&#8217;s Court on September 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old driver has been handed multiple charges after being caught allegedly drink driving with seven passengers at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,34155,2485,45568,430383,44,235911,94,701,430384,12628],"class_list":["post-860425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-drink-driving","tag-gold-coast","tag-helensvale","tag-maccas-run","tag-news","tag-p-plater","tag-qld","tag-queensland","tag-seven-passengers","tag-teenager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}