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DRIVER CHARGED AFTER ALLEGEDLY DOING BURNOUTS WITH PASSENGERS IN TRAY OF UTE

A 20-year-old driver from Wyong is one of 121 people that have been charged with drink driving during Operation Drink Drive 2 over the weekend.

Operation Drink Drive 2 started on Thursday, and ran through until 11.59pm last night.

During the operation, police conducted over 110,000 random breath tests, resulting in 121 people with drink-driving offences.

A total of 6,043 traffic infringements were issued with 3008 of those being for speeding offences.

Police are also concerned by the reckless behaviour of some motorists, including the driver of a utility who was speeding and doing burnouts in Wyong.

About 6pm yesterday, police were patrolling Northcote St, Wyong, when they observed a Ford utility allegedly doing burnouts and speeding with passengers in the tray of the ute.

Police stopped the Ford, and spoke with the driver, a 20-year-old man, who was subject to a road side breath test which returned a positive result. He later allegedly returned a positive result of 0.063.

He was charged with burnout offences, driving an unregistered motor vehicle and mid-range drink driving.

He will appear in court on 28 November.

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