A driver who allegedly had a baby freely crawling around a car while two cartons of beer were securely strapped has been caught by Broome police.
Police were doing routine patrols on the Great Northern Highway when they found the 27-year-old male driver and two other adults in the car wearing seatbelts, but the one-year-old baby was found moving around the car, unsecured.
The driver had clearly prioritised the safety of cartons of Emu Export and Victoria Bitter over the child by buckling the alcohol in with a seatbelt.
The shocking incident was part of a police blitz, which also showed that half of the cars stopped by police were speeding, and more than one third had no authority to drive.
Sgt Paul World said one driver was stopped who allegedly blew 0.224 while under a suspended licence.
There were 10 occupants in the car at the time of the stop – six of them were unrestrained children.
“The level of shocking driving behaviour has now escalated to the point where we need to regular patrols and trying to stop this,” Sgt World said.
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