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A drink drive blitz on Auckland's North Shore has seen 69 drivers return positive breath tests.
Operation Lock-Down was the fifth in a series aimed at shutting down specific locations by swamping them with compulsory breath testing sites.
Sergeant Chris McKenzie said staff from North Shore, Waitakere, Rodney and the Traffic Alcohol Group stopped 8,834 vehicles at 16 checkpoints on Friday and Saturday night.
Seven of the drivers with excess alcohol lim its were teenagers.
McKenzie says that while the number of vehicles stopped was lower than on previous occasions, the ratio of drivers over the legal limit increased.
A further eight people were arrested for various offences including drugs, driving whilst disqualified and reckless driving. Twelve vehicles were impounded and 15 drivers had their driver licence suspended.
