{"id":8903,"date":"2019-08-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/former-boss-of-the-motor-accident-commission-has-been-charged-with-drink-driving\/"},"modified":"2019-08-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T00:00:00","slug":"former-boss-of-the-motor-accident-commission-has-been-charged-with-drink-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/former-boss-of-the-motor-accident-commission-has-been-charged-with-drink-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Boss Of The Motor Accident Commission Has Been Charged With Drink Driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The former boss of the state\u2019s Motor Accident Commission Ben Tuffnell has been charged with drink driving and two counts of assaulting police.<\/h3>\n<p>The Advertiser\u2019s Sean Fewster reports:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tuffnell is further charged with resisting police and failing to comply with a police direction to leave his vehicle. His lawyer says he&#39;ll contest the charges. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theTiser?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@theTiser<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sean Fewster (@SeanFewster) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeanFewster\/status\/1164721770806439936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 23, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> &#13;\n&#13;\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tuffnell has also worked as a chief of staff and advisor for state Premiers, Deputy Premiers and Treasurers, and with Dept Treasury and Finance. In 2017 he started with the SA Tourism Commission. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theTiser?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@theTiser<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sean Fewster (@SeanFewster) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeanFewster\/status\/1164721772924530688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 23, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former boss of the state\u2019s Motor Accident Commission Ben Tuffnell has been charged with drink driving and two counts of assaulting police. The Advertiser\u2019s Sean Fewster reports: Tuffnell is further charged with resisting police and failing to comply with a police direction to leave his vehicle. His lawyer says he&#39;ll contest the charges. @theTiser&mdash; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-8903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Former Boss Of The Motor Accident Commission Has Been Charged With Drink Driving - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/former-boss-of-the-motor-accident-commission-has-been-charged-with-drink-driving\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former Boss Of The Motor Accident Commission Has Been Charged With Drink Driving\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The former boss of the state\u2019s Motor Accident Commission Ben Tuffnell has been charged with drink driving and two counts of assaulting police. 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