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Man seriously injured after car crashes into beer garden at Port Noarlunga Hotel

A man has been rushed to hospital after after a driver who was allegedly five times over the limit crashed into a beer garden at the Port Noarlunga Hotel.

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A man has suffered serious injuries after a car crashed into a beer garden at a Port Noarlunga hotel on Saturday night.

Emergency services were called to the Gawler St hotel after reports of an accident around 9:45pm.

A 60-year-old Port Noarlunga man was taken to Flinders Medical Centre with non-life-threatening injuries.

A man has been arrrested after crashing into a beer garden in Port Noarlunga. Picture: 7NEWS
A man has been arrrested after crashing into a beer garden in Port Noarlunga. Picture: 7NEWS
A man has been rushed to hospital after a driver crashed into the beer garden of the Port Noarlunga Hotel. Picture: 7NEWS
A man has been rushed to hospital after a driver crashed into the beer garden of the Port Noarlunga Hotel. Picture: 7NEWS

The driver of a white Mitsubishi Triton was breath-tested and returned a result – more than five times over the legal limit – of 0.267.

The 46-year-old has been reported for drink driving and aggravated driving without due car.

He will appear in court at a later date.

Meanwhile, the driver of a black Landcruiser is wanted after ramming a police car overnight at Parkside.

A police car was rammed on an eastern suburbs street on Saturday night. picture: Roy VanDerVegt
A police car was rammed on an eastern suburbs street on Saturday night. picture: Roy VanDerVegt

And earlier on Saturday a man was arrested after he crashed into three cars at Pennington.

Police allege that around 4:50pm a patrol tried to a stop a silver Holden sedan because of traffic offences on Park Ave.

The car sped off before colliding with two parked cars and a moving car.

A female passenger in the moving vehicle suffered minor injuries.

The 42-year-old Adelaide man has been charged with dangerous driving to evade police and will appear in the Port Adelaide Magistrates Court on Monday.

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