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Two Melbourne drivers 'put kids at risk'

Two Melbourne drivers have put children at risk with brazen acts of drink-driving and speeding.

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A Melbourne woman was carrying two children in her car when she was caught with a blood alcohol level more than five times the legal limit.

The woman blew a reading of 0.269 per cent when she was breath-tested at a booze bus station in Sandringham, in the city's southeast, on Friday night.

The 45-year-old Cheltenham woman had two children, aged six and eight, in the car with her.

She will be charged with drink-driving offences.

A second driver also put a child's life at risk when driving 120km/h above the speed limit in Dandenong South.

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Police measured the driver's speed at 200km/h in an 80km/h zone in the early hours of Saturday.

When they pulled over the 44-year-old Lynbrook man in his Mercedes-Benz coupe, police found a nine-year-old child in the car.

His car was impounded and he will be charged with speeding.


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