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Driving bans for impairment in Nelson

Nelson police have taken a couple of drivers off the road because of intoxication and impairment.

Two men from Creston had been kicked out of local bars for being drunk and rowdy.

Later police spotted them at a liquor store and watched them get back in their vehicle.

The driver was breath-tested and served with a 90-day prohibition and a 30-day vehicle impoundment.

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A woman received the same penalty after driving through a stop-sign.

She told the officer she wasn’t drunk but stoned and refused the breath-test!

In another incident police took a known criminal into custody.

He was drunk and sprawled on the floor of a local restaurant but had refused to leave

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