Overview
- Yorick Piper recorded a 0.05 blood alcohol reading at a random breath test just before 9am on December 18 while driving to a supermarket in Bendigo.
- He received an on-the-spot fine, reported as $611, and a three-month licence disqualification that begins on January 16.
- Earlier that morning he rear-ended another car at the Spring Gully Road and Carpenter Street intersection, with no injuries reported and details exchanged.
- Premier Jacinta Allan issued a public apology, saying alcohol mixed with medication and that he should not have been driving the following morning.
- The couple donated $1,000 to road-trauma charity Amber Community as Victoria Police’s Operation Roadwise steps up impaired-driving enforcement in December.