Car smoke billows out at breath testing site

By Monique Preston

Mar 13, 2023

Operation Arid: Police are out in force over the Labour Day long weekend. Photo by Rodney Braithwaite

Police were left shaking their heads after a driver was seen allegedly revving his car and releasing a large plume of smoke metres away from a police breath testing site in Seymour on Saturday, March 11.

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Seymour Highway Patrol officers were setting up a drug and alcohol testing site on Anzac Ave when the vehicle came to their attention about 5.30pm.

Police said officers heard loud engine revving and saw a large amount of blue smoke coming from a Ford ute.

The driver, a 55-year-old Broadford man, and his 85-year-old passenger were spoken to by police.

The vehicle was impounded for 30 days at a cost of $906.

The man is expected to be charged on summons with driving offences.

A 52-year-old woman from Seymour drove into the site a short time later and returned an alleged blood alcohol concentration reading of 0.055.

She had her licence immediately suspended for six months and is expected to be charged on summons for drink driving offences.

These intercepts were part of Operation Arid, the state-wide road policing operation aiming to reduce road trauma and lives lost on our roads over the Labour Day long weekend.