A Te Puke woman who has clocked up her 13th conviction for drink-driving or driving while impaired and her eighth for driving while forbidden has been jailed for 25 months.
May Mirimae Heta, 54, was sentenced in the Tauranga District Court on Monday after she pleaded guilty to two charges of driving with excess breath alcohol and one of driving while suspended (third or subsequent offences).
Heta drove with a breath alcohol reading of 728mcg on October 9 last year and
just over three weeks later on November 3, she was caught again, this time with a reading of 573mcg.
The adult legal limit is 250mcg of alcohol per litre of breath.
On the second occasion, Heta was also driving while suspended.