Alcohol-affected woman arrested after fleeing car accident on Summer Street

The 51-year-old woman is alleged to have hit the car containing three children and two adults at 1.35pm on Friday.

The woman was stopped in Maxwell Avenue after a short pursuit and was arrested and taken to Orange Police Station where she returned a BAS reading of 0.198.

Checks revealed the woman, from Orange, had had her licence cancelled and her vehicle was unregistered and uninsured.

The road offence was just one of a string in the region over the Christmas period, with a woman slapped with $1793 in fines after using a mobile phone while trying to negotiate a roundabout in the main street of Katoomba.

Police allege none of her passengers - three children and a man - were wearing seatbelts at the time.

Dozens of drivers who committed offences, including the woman from Orange, turned out to have disqualified licences.

A 39-year-old man was arrested in Bathurst early Saturday morning after a licence check revealed he was disqualified until 2022.

Traffic and Highway Patrol Command's Assistant Commissioner, Michael Corboy, said it was staggering that disqualified drivers risked being detected during a time of high-visibility operations like this.

"If these drivers have a record sufficiently serious that the court has disqualified them from driving - some for extended periods of time - then these drivers should show responsibility, respect the court decision and abide by their ruling," Assistant Commissioner Corboy said.

Also in the Central West, a 53-year-old man from Forbes returned a positive breath which resulted in a reading of 0.171 at the station.