Carindale student crashes vehicle while on drug cocktail in Carina

An economics student has been warned at a court of his “impending death” after he endangered the community during a crash while on a cocktail of drugs.

A serial drug offending economics student has been warned his otherwise bright future could likely include jail or death should he not change his ways, after a crash on a cocktail of drugs.

Carindale man Richard Oliver Otto Hahn, 29, on Monday told the Wynnum Magistrates Court he basically only thinks of himself when abusing dangerous drugs.

Hahn pleaded guilty to drug driving and driving without due care or attention.

The court heard he was lucky not to have injured himself or members of the community after he crashed into a fence on February 18 last year.

Police arrived at a Carina address around 10.20pm to find a clearly drug affected Hahn near his black Ford which was already on the tray of a tow truck.

Richard Oliver Otto Hahn, 29, leaves Wynnum Magistrates Court. Picture: Marcel Baum.

Tests would confirm a cocktail of drugs in his system included methamphetamine, amphetamine, diazepam (also known as Valium) and nordazepam.

The offending came on the back of what a police prosecutor said was a history of drug offending that was “all over the place”.

It included a suspended jail sentence from September 2020 for possession of dangerous drugs.

Defence solicitor Sarah Pascoe said her client was near the end of an economics degree and had courted trouble with a meth addiction started while at university.

Magistrate Zachary Sarra gave the man an ominous warning for endangering the community.

“If this is not a warning sign of impending death, I don’t know what is,” Mr Sarra said.

“You are doing everything in your power to go to jail.

“If he doesn’t kill himself, he is going to kill someone else.”

Mr Sarra encouraged the man to capitalise on what otherwise appeared to be a bright future and warned him the dock likely beckons should he reoffend.

Hahn was sentenced to 18 months’ probation and disqualified from driving for one month.