A 61-year-old woman is to face court next month after allegedly drink-driving and crashing a car in Ballina over the weekend.
Police say they were called to Ferngrove Drive in Ballina around 1.45pm Sunday 4 January in response to a single-vehicle crash.
Officers were told a 61-year-old woman had been driving an SUV on Tamarind Drive when she entered a roundabout and allegedly made a left turn from the right lane before crashing into a pedestrian traffic refuge, ripping out the steel rails.
The woman allegedly continued through a give way sign and over a roundabout, causing the tyres to deflate, before driving through a wooden fence.
She allegedly returned a roadside reading of 0.302 before refusing a breath analysis.
She was issued with a Field Court Attendance Notice to appear at Ballina Local Court in February.
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