A man charged with drink-driving causing the death of a friend in a crash near Hastings last year had almost three times the legal limit of alcohol, police say.
According to a charge in Hastings District Court yesterday, alleged crash driver Tyler James Walker, 21, of Hastings, had a blood-alcohol level of 218mg per 100ml when a blood sample was taken soon after the crash which killed Jesse Lee Uncles on Farndon Rd, a short distance from the Chesterhope Bridge, shortly before midnight on August 8 last year.
While the legal limit for his age is now 50mg, it was 80mg at the time of the crash.
Walker faces one charge of drink-driving causing death and two of drink-driving causing injury to two other passengers, as well as a charge of dangerous driving relating to events in Pakowhai Rd, Hastings, a short time before the crash.
Police say Mr Uncles was a backseat passenger when the car rolled on a bend and dropped down to a stand of trees and flipped back on to the road.