FAIRFAX NZ Crate Day drinking led to two cars racing and one crashing through a fence near Nelson. A Crate Day session followed by drunken racing ended with an 18-year-old crashing his car through a fence and into a paddock. Billy Langley appeared in Nelson District Court on Monday, where a police summary of facts said his breath alcohol reading was 791 micrograms per litre of breath following the crash on Sunday evening. The legal limit is just 250 micrograms per litre of breath for an adult, but for under-20 drivers it's zero. The defendant told officers he'd had "six or seven large crate beers" and had been racing another vehicle when he crashed.

Source: Stuff December 04, 2017 04:18 UTC