Braden Kenneth Ian Woolford, 20, pleaded guilty on Thursday to drink driving, careless driving and driving while disqualified.
Braden Kenneth Ian Woolford, 20, pleaded guilty on Thursday to drink driving, careless driving and driving while disqualified.
A drunk driver who crashed his car carrying three passengers has lost his licence for the second time while being sentenced in Masterton District Court.
Braden Kenneth Ian Woolford, 20, pleaded guilty on Thursday to drink driving, careless driving and driving while disqualified.
Police prosecutor Sergeant Jodie Lawrence said Woolfordwas disqualified from driving for six months on April 3, on a charge of sustained loss of traction.
On Sunday, June 21, at about 2am, Woolford had been driving with three passengers down Tararua Dr, a rural road near Masterton.
When he applied his brakes partway around a left hand turn, the tyres lost traction and the car spun 180 degrees, "launched off a bank", crashed through more than one fence and came to rest in a field 40m or 50m from the road. The occupants were all uninjured and walked away, being spoken to by police a few hundred metres from the site.
"You were fortunate you didn't injure yourself and there was no one else in the immediate vicinity ... or indeed injure your passengers," Judge Edwards said.
Woolford was sentenced to 80 hours' community work and disqualified from driving for nine months, beginning in October when his current disqualification ends.
