A man has been caught drink driving twice in less than three hours with a licence that expired more than two decades ago.
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Yesterday 12pm, police responded to reports of a single vehicle crash on Burley Griffin Way near Harden.
The 50-year-old Gogeldrie man had crashed his Nissan Navara utility into a drain and was found not to have sustained injuries.
Officers found that his licence had expired in December 1998.
He blew a positive reading in a roadside breath test and was taken to Harden Police Station were he allegedly returned a reading of 0.129.
Police issued a court attendance notice and released him from custody.
Then again at 2.30pm, police responded to several driving complaints on the Olympic Highway north of Cootamundra.
Highway patrol officers found the same man had stopped his vehicle in a rural driveway.
He allegedly returned a second positive roadside breath test and was taken to Cootamundra Police Station, where he returned a reading of 0.211.
Police charged him with high range PCA and never licensed person drive vehicle on road. He will appear in Cootamundra court in March.
