{"id":484900,"date":"2026-06-19T05:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T05:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/484900\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T05:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T05:10:08","slug":"auckland-taxi-driver-was-allegedly-six-times-over-drink-driving-limit-while-carrying-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/484900\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland taxi driver was allegedly six times over drink-driving limit while carrying passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">As the taxi van neared the Waterview Tunnel, its speed continued to fluctuate between slower and higher speeds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Motorways units located the van on SH20 near the Mount Albert area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">The 40-year-old male driver was taken into custody and allegedly returned a breath-alcohol result more than six times the legal limit of 250mcg, for drivers 20 and over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt\u2019s deeply concerning to us that a professional driver has been transporting passengers while allegedly under the influence of alcohol,\u201d Russell said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI shudder to think what might have happened had this man not been stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Russell praised the actions of the initial caller.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe person that reported this to us should be commended for seeing something and doing something about it, calling police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI understand the caller also got behind the van and put hazard lights on to try and warn other motorists, and we acknowledge their assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">The driver has been summonsed to court on a charge of being a transport service driver with breath alcohol over 400mcg per litre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the taxi van neared the Waterview Tunnel, its speed continued to fluctuate between slower and higher speeds.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20784,7818,51,4057,1875,9525,39687,19552,6712,25449,50371,130,111,43,139,69,1523,29459,4739,44868,131,14005,6736,33242,6123,102],"class_list":["post-484900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-alcohol","tag-allegedly","tag-auckland","tag-behind","tag-carrying","tag-caught","tag-drinkdriving","tag-driver","tag-legal","tag-level","tag-limit","tag-more","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-passengers","tag-six","tag-taxi","tag-than","tag-times","tag-was","tag-wheel","tag-while","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484900","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=484900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}