Police were left shaking their heads after a driver was seen causing a large plume of smoke metres away from a breath-testing site in Seymour on March 11.
Seymour Highway Patrol officers were setting up a drug and alcohol testing site on Anzac Avenue when the vehicle came to their attention about 5.30pm.
Officers heard a loud engine revving and saw a large amount of blue smoke coming from a Ford ute.
The driver of the vehicle, a 55-year-old Broadford man and his 85-year-old passenger, the man’s mother, were intercepted and spoken to by police.
The driver admitted to poor driving behaviour and his vehicle was impounded for 30 days at a cost of $906.
He is expected to be charged on summons with driving offences.
A short time later, a Seymour woman, 52, returned an alleged reading of 0.055. She had her licence immediately suspended for six months and is expected to be charged on summons for drink driving offences.
The intercepts were part of Operation Arid, a state-wide road policing operation aimed to reduce road trauma over the Labour Day long weekend.
