Redland mayor Karen Williams apologises after admitting she consumed ‘several glasses of wine’ before crash
Redland mayor Karen Williams has apologised after crashing her car after consuming ‘several glasses of wine’.Redland mayor Karen Williams has apologised after crashing her car after consuming ‘several glasses of wine’.Last modified on Mon 27 Jun 2022 07.17 BST
Hours before the crash, Williams held a video meeting with the families of drink-driving victims including Judy Lindsay, whose daughter Hayley was killed by a drink-driver in 2009.“I just said, ‘I can’t have any contact with you any more. You can’t be doing the job you’re doing. I trusted you and this is what you’ve done’,” Lindsay told Nine’s Today program on Monday.Read more
“[Generally], the more people drink, the more people underestimate how drunk they are and overestimate how drunk everyone else is,” Devilly told Guardian Australia. “There’s a reason we have these rules. It’s not just arbitrary. People don’t react as well and they drive very poorly the more drunk they are.”
Asked whether Williams should resign, Queensland’s police minister, Mark Ryan, said: “Speaking generally, if someone makes a bad choice, if someone breaks the law there should be consequences.”Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning “Our son was driving on Wellington Street, Cleveland last Thursday night, just minutes after an alleged intoxicated driver crossed 4 lanes of traffic and ran off the road into a tree,” he wrote on Facebook.
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