Driver arrested at the police checkpoint to brush his teeth

A person was arrested yesterday for brushing his teeth while driving in Dunedin.

The hygiene-conscious driver was stopped at a police checkpoint targeting distracted drivers on Crawford St between 9.50am. M. And 10.30 a. M.

A police spokesman said the driver was spoken to and educated.

Eight other people were caught using their mobile phone, three were not wearing seat belts, and several drivers were spoken to about holding vaping devices while driving.

Consistent with the police’s focus on motorcyclists this month, several motorcyclists were also detained and spoken to, he said.

In 2015 Auckland Transport launched the “Oi” campaign, featuring movie clips in cinemas, social media posts and billboards in the Auckland region.

AT Community Transportation Manager Claire Dixon said at the time that in addition to the distractions of smartphones, drivers were reading books, eating breakfast and using their car as a portable beauty salon.

“I regularly see a man shaving and brushing his teeth on the Waterview Highway.”

In 2011, a teacher crashed her car while brushing her teeth and told police that she had lost concentration.

The 65-year-old man, who was treated at Blenheim Hospital, had also been drinking, the Blenheim District Court was told.

Sgt. Graham Single said he was driving towards Picton at the time when he put his car’s cruise control at 100 km / h, “he took out his toothbrush and started brushing his teeth.”

After turning left, it overcorrected and crashed into a rock bank on the right side of the road, the Marlborough Express reported.

His blood alcohol level was 135 mg. The legal limit is 80 mg.

The woman told the judge that her work as a teacher at the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology had “more or less disappeared” after the earthquake and that at the time she was upset about family problems.