A drunk and unlicensed driver, with three young passengers in the car, lost control on a southern Dunedin hill, ploughing through a fence and flipping the car, police say.
The driver, in his early 30s, his partner and the children had a "lucky escape" when he lost control while travelling down Easther Cres in Kew, about 4pm yesterday, serious crash investigator Constable Amie Manning said.
The car crossed the centre line, ploughed through a wooden fence and hit its concrete block base with such force it was torn from its foundations.
Beer bottles littered the ground around the smashed driver's window and blood pooled around shattered glass on the tarseal.
Const Manning said two of the children - all aged between 6 and 9 - escaped without injury, while the third sustained only minor injuries.