A P-plater has been sentenced in Dubbo Local Court for two drink-driving offences that happened one month apart.
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The 17-year-old who can not be named for legal reasons pleaded guilty to two counts of special category driver drive with a blood alcohol limit within the special range - between 0.02 and 0.049.
The defence submitted the first offence in December was a morning-after type offence.
While the solicitor conceded there were passengers in the car, he submitted it fell to the lower end of objective seriousness.
He said the teen accepted his moral culpability was higher on the second occasion because he had been charged one month earlier with the same offence and it was a deliberate to decision to drive after drinking.
The teen was discharged on the condition he enter into a bond for the first offence, but convicted, fined $200 and disqualified for three months for the second offence.