Dad takes meth following serious workplace accident
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A 40-year-old man with a “disappointingly lengthy” traffic history told police he’d taken meth before driving at Sarina.
Kenneth Raymond Lawlor, 40, pleaded guilty at Emerald Magistrates Court on March 23 to drug-driving.
Police prosecutor Sergeant Paul Cramp said police stopped Lawlor at 8.30am on January 11 on Broad Street for a random drug test.
He returned a positive result and informed police he had taken some methamphetamine the night before. Tests later revealed the presence of that drug.
Lawlor, a father of three, told the court he had been seriously injured in a workplace accident a “few years ago”, leaving him unable to work for two years.
He said he intended to start working again and had found employment on a property.
Lawlor was fined $500 and disqualified from driving for one month.
A conviction was recorded.
