{"id":418147,"date":"2026-05-08T15:41:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/418147\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T15:41:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:41:18","slug":"oamaru-pizza-delivery-driver-drunk-at-the-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/418147\/","title":{"rendered":"Oamaru pizza delivery driver drunk at the wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pizza customers were left to go hungry while Oamaru police delivered a slice of justice.<\/p>\n<p>A pizza delivery driver was pinged for drink driving at a police checkpoint on Thames Highway on Saturday night while on their delivery run.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old Oamaru woman allegedly recorded a breath alcohol\u00a0level of 679mcg \u2014\u00a0more than twice\u00a0the legal limit.<\/p>\n<p>She would appear in the Oamaru District Court next week.<\/p>\n<p>Oamaru Sergeant Tony Woodbridge\u00a0said 60 to 70 cars went through with just one driver being over the legal limit.<\/p>\n<p>Sgt Woodbridge said Oamaru police were ramping up with more checkpoints in the town and encouraged people to plan ahead on how to get home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most people plan for a night out but don\u2019t plan how to get home.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pizza customers were left to go hungry while Oamaru police delivered a slice of justice. A pizza delivery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-418147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","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\/418147","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=418147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}