Nicole Taylor expressed amazement that she was so far over the legal limit when she was arrested, given that her last drink was 11 hours earlier.

“It’s gotta be wrong,” she told officers at Albury police station when informed she had provided a mid-range reading.

Taylor, 38, of Dunne Crescent, made a brief appearance in Albury Local Court this week over the incident last October.

Taylor pleaded guilty to a second offence of driving with a mid-range concentration of alcohol over the incident.

She will have to wait until the end of next month to know her fate after magistrate Tony Murray ordered that Taylor, 38, undergo a pre-sentence report.

Taylor’s solicitor said it was acknowledged the matter was serious given that Taylor had a child in her car.

He said it was accepted also that Taylor had “a very high reading”.

The court was told through facts handed to Mr Murray that police detected Taylor while patrolling Thurgoona Drive, Lavington, on October 23 just after 11am.

The officers drove past a white Holden Rodeo that was heading west.

They decided to follow the vehicle, ordering the driver to pull over in Travelstop Way, which runs off Thurgoona Drive.

Taylor, who produced a Victorian driver’s licence with a Mansfield address, provided a positive result to a preliminary breath test.

It was then that police saw that Taylor had her four-year-old daughter in the back of the vehicle.

Taylor was immediately taken into custody to have a full breath test back at Albury police station.

Her reading was almost three times the legal limit.

Taylor told police she had her first drink at 7.30 the night before, with her last at midnight.

Asked to estimate how many drinks she had, Taylor told police she reckoned between eight and 10 cans of vodka and orange. She did not eat anything over this period.

Police told the court that Taylor’s breath smelt “strongly” of alcohol, her speech was slurred and her eyes were watery and bloodshot.

Taylor must re-appear in court for sentence on March 31.