POLICE have charged a Helensburgh woman with being over the alcohol-limit while driving with her two young children inside her car.

About 8.30pm on Saturday, Sutherland police were undertaking random breath testing on the Princes Highway at Kirrawee.

They stopped a Toyota Rav4 being driven by a 43-year-old Helensburgh women. She had her two sons, aged two and four, in the car at the time.

The woman returned a positive alcohol reading, before registering a breath analysis of 0.070 at Sutherland Police Station.

Police have charged her with low-range drink driving and she will appear at Sutherland Local Court on May 8.