{"id":410708,"date":"2026-05-04T03:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T03:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/410708\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T03:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T03:47:14","slug":"alleged-drink-driver-on-failed-breath-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/410708\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged drink driver on failed breath test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">An Otago man who allegedly returned a breath alcohol reading of more than three times the legal limit told police it \u201cdidn\u2019t count because it was the blood of Christ\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police were called to reports of an erratic driver on Ravensbourne Road, between Dunedin and Port Chalmers, at around 6.45pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Acting Senior Sergeant Iain Notman said the 53-year-old driver allegedly crossed the centre line multiple times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Notman said the man told police he had not consumed any alcohol apart from sacramental wine at Mass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">A decision on whether the man will be charged will be made once the results of his blood test are received.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Otago man who allegedly returned a breath alcohol reading of more than three times the legal limit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,1080,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-410708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-dunedin-otago","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}