Avinash Krishnan pleads guilty to drunkenly crashing into a fence while unregistered
A southern suburbs man has faced court for crashing his car and leaving the scene before blowing more than three times the legal limit.
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A 28-year-old Seaford Meadows man has faced court after a night of drunken post-soccer celebrations landed him in trouble.
Avinash Krishnan pleaded guilty at the Christies Beach Magistrates Court on Monday to drink driving an unregistered car at more than three times the legal blood alcohol limit, crashing into a fence and leaving the scene.
A police prosecutor told the court police had been called to a Seaford Meadows address following reports of a car crash at 5.30am on September 27.
“On arrival they discovered the offending vehicle had left, conducted some preliminary investigation where they located a number plate lodged in a damaged area of fencing,” the prosecutor said.
Searches revealed the number plate was registered in Krishnan’s name and police later located him at his home address.
Krishnan was taken to the Christies Beach Police Station where he recorded a blood alcohol reading of 0.167.
The avid soccer fan told the court he had been celebrating his final soccer match of the season with friends before driving home and crashing into the fence.
“I left (my friend’s house) at I’d say about 4am, it was a long way back, I was feeling sleepy, I nodded off after the roundabout and hit into the kerb and didn’t realise I’d hit the fence at that point,” Krishnan said.
“The first thing I did was look around and there were no other cars and no other people and I was looking for my phone … but I didn’t realise it had fallen under the seat.
“Because I lived only a minute or two away and it was late I thought let me just go home and I’ll find my phone and make the necessary calls (later).”
Magistrate Lynette Duncan convicted Krishnan and fined him a total of $1600.
He also received a mandatory 12-month disqualification and was ordered to pay $3051 in impounding fees.
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