A SEABROOK drink-driver’s car crashed into parked vehicles, two fences and a house, narrowly avoiding killing a man, a court has heard.
Anthony Tennyson was almost four times the legal limit when he accelerated off the bitumen earlier this year while driving through the intersection of Thomas and Armstrong streets, Laverton.
Last Wednesday, Werribee Magistrates Court heard the 62-year-old’s car ploughed through the steel fence of a house and into a verandah, narrowly missing a man who was sitting there, police said.
Police escorted Tennyson to Williamstown police station for questioning, where he admitted to drinking six stubbies of beer between midday and 6.45pm. A blood-alcohol test at Williamstown hospital revealed a reading of .189.
Magistrate John Bentley disqualified Tennyson from driving for two years, and imposed another three months off the road for careless driving. He was fined $850 with conviction.
