Baby caught up in allegedly drunk driver's rampage in Sydney supermarket car park
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A newborn baby has been caught up in an alleged drink driver's rampage in a Sydney car park.
A woman is accused of smashing into multiple cars on the upper north shore while allegedly more than five times the legal limit.
A simple reverse out of the Turramurra car space spiralled out of control, smashing into three cars at once.
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A 62-year-old woman has been arrested in a toilet after allegedly crashing into five cars in a Sydney car park. Nine
It ploughed into a fourth, which had little Florence in the back seat.
"As I unclipped her I could see a car in my peripherals just accelerating at me," father Joshua Quaife said.
"She got ejected out of her car seat because it was unbuckled and it was just traumatising to see her like that."
The driver hit a fifth car, scraping and scratching free - before the first car copped it again.
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Father Joshua Quaife said he was putting his baby in the car when the driver ran into it. Nine
"If it was a few seconds earlier, I would have been holding her getting her out of the car, and would have been crushed, so it was lucky I was two or three seconds too slow to settle her," Quaife said.
The woman behind the wheel threw what looked like a bottle into a bush just before she left the trail of destruction.
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Police arrested a 62-year-old in a nearby toilet yesterday afternoon.
A test at Hornsby police station allegedly showed her blood alcohol level was more than five times the legal limit.
She was charged with high range drink driving and negligent driving.
Florence, who turns five weeks old tomorrow, was unhurt and unbothered.
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