A woman who recorded Victoria's highest drink-drive reading has been handed a six month jail term.
Heather-Ann Higgins was nine times over the legal limit when she crashed her car on Stumpy Gully Road at Moorooduc, on the Mornington Peninsula, on February 15 this year.
Higgins, of Somers, south of Melbourne, recorded a blood alcohol concentration of .462 and was charged with conduct endangering life and exceeding the prescribed concentration of alcohol.
Sentencing Higgins on Tuesday, Frankston magistrate Ross Betts said her driving involved conduct of a grave nature.
"Drink drivers risk the lives of others in a grave way," he said.
Higgins' offending was serious enough to warrant a jail sentence, he added.
Mr Betts sentenced Higgins to six months' prison and disqualified her from driving for five years.
However, Higgins was later released on bail after she said she intended to appeal the sentence.
The appeal is scheduled to be heard in the Victorian County Court in October.
Looks like in the near future some new law reforms may take place.
To speed the process up a little all that needs to be done is that a drink driver inflicts harm to a Law Makers family, because so far the accidents which cause fatalities to the general public fall on deaf ears.
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