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Teen drunk at 180km/h (and is let off the hook)
Aug 26th, 2010 at 12:26pm
 
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    * Teen so drunk she could hardly walk
    * Escapes prison sentence and fine
    * She is young, pregnant, depressed

TEENAGER Toyah Tate was so drunk she could hardly walk when police stopped her car after clocking her speed at 180km/h.

She later recorded a blood-alcohol reading of 0.168 - more than eight times her legal limit as a P-plater.
Despite a magistrate yesterday finding her dangerous driving was "one of the worst cases" he had seen, she escaped jail as she is young, pregnant and depressed.
Tate, 19, of Gorokan, had a female passenger in her car on the F3 in New South Wales when she was observed speeding and weaving between traffic on her way to a Gosford nightclub in June.
A motorist had reported her vehicle was travelling so fast he was "unable to further describe the car".
Police eventually caught up to the trainee hairdresser at Ourimbah - after she was clocked at 180km/h.
She told police: "I've been drinking and driving."
An empty 750ml vodka bottle was found near the front seat.
At Wyong Local Court yesterday, Tate pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and high-range drink-driving and was given a 12-month suspended jail sentence. Her licence was suspended for two years.
She was ordered to pay $76 court costs but escaped a fine.
Magistrate Glen Walsh said that he accepted findings of psychiatric and pre-sentence reports, which the court heard found she was diagnosed with depression after the deaths of her father and boyfriend.
The court heard that Tate had "ceased alcohol" since discovering she was pregnant.
Mr Walsh described her offence as "one of the worst cases, in my view" of driving in a dangerous manner but took into consideration her age, the fact it was her first offence and that she is now nine weeks pregnant.
Tate declined to comment when approached outside the court.




Amazing!
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Reply #1 - Aug 26th, 2010 at 12:30pm
 



Drunk, pregnant and speeding is no way to go through life, Luv 
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Reply #2 - Aug 26th, 2010 at 1:11pm
 
How the hell did she escape without a fine, and only $76 costs?  Everyone else gets fined twice as much for going 11km/h over the limit, let alone 100k over while pissed.

It's just one rule for pregnant drug fked skanks and another for everyone else.
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Reply #3 - Aug 26th, 2010 at 1:28pm
 
... wrote on Aug 26th, 2010 at 1:11pm:
How the hell did she escape without a fine, and only $76 costs?  Everyone else gets fined twice as much for going 11km/h over the limit, let alone 100k over while pissed.

It's just one rule for pregnant drug fked skanks and another for everyone else.


No truer words ever spoken, there`s a hard luck story behind every crime, road deaths are a hard luck story too.  The message this weak slap on the wrist sends to other kids, particularly the girls, "you`ll get off drink driving lightly if you`ve got a sob story".
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Reply #4 - Aug 26th, 2010 at 3:52pm
 
She should have had at least three months in jail to think about her actions.

Disgraceful, and Judges wonder why we think they are out of touch.
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Reply #5 - Aug 29th, 2010 at 8:06pm
 
This reminds me of a girl my sister went to school with.

Caught in an unregistered vehicle, going 130 in a 60 zone, drunk, drugs on her...A few other charges I think, too...
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Reply #6 - Aug 29th, 2010 at 8:10pm
 
Toyah - with a name like that, she never had a chance.

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Reply #7 - Aug 29th, 2010 at 8:12pm
 
Better chance than La Toya...
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Reply #8 - Sep 1st, 2010 at 10:33pm
 
She should have got at least 1 year in jail.
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Reply #9 - Sep 2nd, 2010 at 1:00am
 
If the above is correct she needs at least a month inside, the speeding alone should bear a larger fine.
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