Brockley Street resident Barbara Baker recently sought permission from Wodonga magistrate David Faram to have her licence returned. 

That required her to answer a string of questions about the incident and her use of drugs and alcohol, but the supermarket worker’s story changed constantly during the hearing.

She at first told the court she had fallen out of the car while her daughter was driving, breaking her arm.

Baker said police only got her for drink driving after her daughter wrote a statement stating she drove drunk earlier that day.

It then emerged that she had told others she had taken 15 Valium tablets, decided to drive with her daughter as a passenger, and jumped out of the car.

“I dunno where that came from,” Baker said as Mr Faram read through the report.

The magistrate said she had given the story during the drink driving interview.

“No I didn’t,” she replied.

Mr Faram said Baker had only claimed to have had two cans of premix alcohol despite her 0.180 reading.

“You were seriously affected by drugs and alcohol, is that fair?” he asked.

“Valium, yes,” she replied.

Baker also said she had been smoking a gram of cannabis each day, but stopped a year ago.

When asked, she admitted she smoked two days earlier. 

“We are gonna give up smoking dope once I’ve got my licence back because we won’t be bored anymore,” she said of herself and husband.

There were further problems with using an interlock, Baker said between heavy breaths, as she thought she couldn’t blow into such a device.

Mr Faram, perhaps unsurprisingly, knocked back the application.

“I’m not satisfied at all that you should be relicensed,” he said.

“You won’t be getting your licence back while you’re smoking marijuana, I can tell you.”

He noted she would likely test positive to cannabis if checked. 

The matter will return to court on April 10.