Fresh charges for driver who injured woman in Tindall Road house crash

The drink-driver who ploughed through the wall of this house in January last year, seriously injuring an occupant, has allegedly been drink-driving again ,while still awaiting sentence for that previous offence. Picture supplied

A drink-driver awaiting sentence after seriously injuring a woman when he ploughed into her house while trying to evade police, has been charged with further drink-driving.

Alec Thoreson Thomson, 37, made a brief appearance during a registrar’s list in Gisborne District Court yesterday.

He has been charged with driving contrary to an alcohol interlock order and driving with excess breath alcohol for a third or subsequent time — allegedly his ninth.

Thomson was remanded at large without plea to appear again in court on December 11.

He is due for sentence next January on previously admitted charges arising from an incident in which he lost control of his Nissan Elgrand vehicle and ploughed into a house near the intersection of Tyndall and Ida roads at about 8.45pm on January 4, 2022.

Earlier that nigh, police were called by his former partner of 18 years after Thomson trespassed on her property at about 8.30pm that night and stood outside ranting verbal abuse at her.

A pursuit was abandoned after Thomson refused to stop and told officers to “chase” him.

A woman sitting at a kitchen table inside the house suffered serious abdominal injuries when Thomson’s vehicle suddenly ploughed through a wall, demolishing a kitchen table where she was sitting.

The woman had to be put into an induced coma and underwent four surgeries at Waikato Hospital.

Blood-tested after his arrest, Thomson returned a reading of 125 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood.

He pleaded guilty in July this year to charges arising of wilful trespass, failing to stop for police and drink-driving for a third or subsequent time, causing injury.

A charge of driving while disqualified was withdrawn.