Qld: Train track mum in court

AAP General News (Australia)
08-03-2006
Qld: Train track mum in court

A woman's been charged with dangerous driving .. after she steered her car onto a Brisbane
railway line .. and honked her horn at a train she was following.

53-year-old JANELLE SHARON RANDALL of Tingalpa .. in Brisbane's east .. has faced Brisbane
Magistrates Court charged with the dangerous operation of a motor vehicle.

Police claim the incident happened on July 16 .. when RANDALL was affected by an intoxicating
substance.

She'd picked her daughter up from work around midnight (AEST) and was on her way home
.. when she drove onto the track at Murarrie railway station in Brisbane's east.

The court's been told RANDALL drove 300 metres down the railway tracks .. honking her
horn at a train ahead of her.

The car then became stuck on the tracks .. and trains had to be stopped on the line
between Murarrie and Hemmant.

RANDALL .. who wasn't required to plea and is on bail of her own undertaking .. was
remanded to reappear in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on August 24.

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