A night out for a charity fundraiser at Dubbo has led to a woman who got behind the wheel the next morning being convicted and fined for drink-driving and disqualified.
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Cleo Anne Montgomery, 25, was detected driving with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.092 along Wheelers Lane about 7.30am.
She pleaded guilty in Dubbo Local Court to mid-range drink-driving.
The defence asked the court to conditionally discharge Montgomery, meaning no conviction would be recorded and she would keep her licence.
Magistrate Brian van Zuylen convicted the driver, fined her $600 and disqualified her licence for seven months.
Montgomery had been pulled over for a random breath test and there was nothing about her driving that had brought her to police attention, her solicitor said.
The 25-year-old had attended a cancer fundraiser the night before and arranged transport home, the court heard.
She had no idea of the residual alcohol that was still in her system the next morning and was "flabbergasted" by the reading, her solicitor said.
There was a previous matter on her record, the solicitor said but he asked the court to consider exercising "considerable leniency" by discharging Montgomery on the condition she enter a good behaviour bond.
Mr van Zuylen said the reading of 0.092 was almost double the legal limit.
He said while it was said Montgomery had learnt a valuable lesson she had been caught before and that in the court's view there must be a conviction for the offence.
