Arrest after car crashes into Smithfield shopfront
Police news
A woman who drove her car through the shop window of a Smithfield business last Friday has been arrested for drink driving.
Police said “substantial damage” was done to the Faculty Close business after the incident, and when the 51-year-old was breath tested, she blew 0.216.
She was charged with drink driving and her licence was immediately suspended.
Police allege the woman drove a Mazda 3 through the shop front at about lunchtime on Friday, April 4.
She was breath tested at the site, then taken to Smithfield Police Station, where she was given a second test.
The woman is due to appear in the Cairns Magistrates Court on Friday, April 18, police said.
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