Ladies' car insurance news
14/06/2007

Very drunk lady faces woman car insurance rise

A lady from West Auckland, New Zealand was caught drink driving after she was seen driving erratically and now likely faces a significant increase in her woman car insurance rates.

Another road user and his wife noticed the 27-year-old's Renault weaving along the road, coming within inches of crashing into a bus at one point.

The 57-year-old man commented: "I was expecting to see the whole side of her car gone, but she went back to the middle lane and went across in front of us."

She then started drifting between lanes, unaware of the blaring horns coming from the cars around her.

The man continued: "She started to wander right across the middle of the road. That's when I rang the police. I said, 'This is a big accident waiting to happen.'"

However, the female driver pulled across to the side of the road as she approached a car park and the man took the opportunity to stop her continuing her dangerous journey. Still on the phone to the police, he removed the keys from the ignition of the woman's car before she could pull back out into traffic.

He said: "She couldn't even talk, she couldn't even sit in the seat straight. I have never seen a person so drunk in my life."

New Zealand police revealed that her breath alcohol reading was 1943mcg/l, the highest figure they have ever recorded. She was charged with drink driving.

Gemma Turner, spokesperson for woman car insurance firm CoverGirl Car Insurance Services, said: "It was extremely lucky that the only thing this lady damaged was her chance at getting a cheap motor insurance quote, and that she did not injure herself or anyone else while driving in this condition."