The adult seated beside a drunk teenager when the teenager crashed a car in Alexandra has been charged by police.
Sergeant Derek Ealson said the 40-year-old male had been charged with two counts of reckless driving causing injury, plus supplying alcohol to a minor.
Ealson said the reckless driving charge could be laid if a person drove a vehicle, or caused a vehicle to be driven.
The 15-year-old had been driving a van with four people in it when it rolled on Little Valley Rd just after 7pm on Otober 21.
Central Otago sub-area supervisor Senior Sergeant Ian Kerrisk said the driver of the vehicle was drunk, as well as the driver's parent and the others.
