Officer ‘blindsided’ by punch to head from drunk after fiery crash

Police are fuming after an officer was “blindsided” by a punch to the head while transporting a man to the watch-house.
The incident began around 4am Monday when a 24-year-old man allegedly crashed his vehicle into a four-wheel-drive stopped at a set of lights on the Gold Coast Highway at Broadbeach.
He was detained by police before allegedly punching an officer in the head while on the way to Southport watch-house, where he blew a blood-alcohol reading more than four-times the legal limit.
Gold Coast police superintendent Rhys Wildman told Mark Levy seeing such behaviour is “extremely concerning”.
“Having one of our staff essentially blindsided by a punch to the head in a vehicle while it’s being transported is just taking things to a whole new level for us.
“The male … returned a reading of 0.211 at breath analysis, … which is hard to comprehend for anyone on a Monday morning.”
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