{"id":358758,"date":"2025-03-21T16:35:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T06:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=358758"},"modified":"2025-03-21T16:35:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T06:35:41","slug":"driver-faces-six-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2025\/03\/21\/driver-faces-six-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver Faces Six Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_358761\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-358761\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250320police.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-358761\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250320police.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250320police.jpg 740w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250320police-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250320police-269x167.jpg 269w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250320police-285x177.jpg 285w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250320police-340x211.jpg 340w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250320police-263x163.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-358761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The vehicle was stopped by police on Thursday evening on the D&#8217;Aguilar Highway near Yarraman (Photo: QPS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>March 21, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Police have charged a 32-year-old man who allegedly failed a roadside drug test with six traffic offences after he reportedly drove dangerously on the D&#8217;Aguilar Highway on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>It will be alleged that earlier in the day, the same vehicle was spotted driving on the wrong side of the road on the Bruce Highway.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said about 3:00pm police received several calls that a vehicle was driving north along the southbound traffic lanes at Elimbah.<\/p>\n<p>Police located the vehicle stopped on the Steve Irwin Way on-ramp however when they tried to intercept it, the driver allegedly drove around police and back on to the highway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About 5:15pm, police received further calls that the same vehicle had been spotted allegedly driving dangerously on the D\u2019Aguilar Highway at Moore.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shortly afterwards police saw the vehicle at Yarraman where it is alleged the driver drove back on to the highway before stopping.<\/p>\n<p>Police allege the Kallangur man returned a positive result for methamphetamine during a roadside drug test.<\/p>\n<p>He has been charged with six offences: dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle while adversely affected, drug driving, evading police and two counts of driving while unlicensed.<\/p>\n<p>He was due to appear in Kingaroy Magistrates Court on Friday.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Raw video supplied by the QPS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j_0KtByhWnY?rel=0\" width=\"760\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have charged a 32-year-old man who allegedly failed a roadside drug test with six traffic offences after he reportedly drove dangerously on the D&#8217;Aguilar Highway on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":358761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,24],"tags":[857,1132,176],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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