Drink driving

Moves to raise the driving age and to cut the youth blood-alcohol level to zero will help reduce the road death and injury toll, University of Otago researcher Dr Dorothy Begg says.

Oamaru police are concerned the drink-driving message is still not getting through, with seven drivers apprehended in the Waitaki district at the weekend.

A Wanaka woman was given a lengthy sentence of community work and supervision for her drink-driving conviction, when she appeared in the Queenstown District Court yesterday.