Dean Nicholas Kleinschmidt, 31, leaves scene of drunken crash with police in pursuit

“People like you are killing other people on the road”: A court has heard the loss of a prized job saw an accountant hit the bottle, a vehicle and a brick wall.

A magistrate disgusted with the state’s skyrocketing road toll pulled no punches when addressing an accountant who crashed and ran away from police while more than 5.5 times the legal limit.

“People like you are killing other people on the road; they get s**t-faced and crash,” Magistrate Zachary Sarra said to Dean Nicholas Kleinschmidt, 31, at his Wynnum Magistrates Court appearance today (September 27).

Kleinschmidt pleaded guilty to obstructing police and failing to provide a specimen of blood.

The blistering statement by Mr Sarra came after the court heard the Ferny Grove chartered accountant was lucky not to have hurt anyone else when he crashed into an oncoming vehicle on July 16 in Tingalpa.

Dean Nicholas Kleinschmidt, 31, earned a magistrate's wrath after a third drink drive incident.

According to police, Kleinschmidt turned across the path of an oncoming vehicle about 7.12pm on the day, crashed into the vehicle and proceeded to veer into a brick wall.

Witnesses directed police to the defendant who pushed an officer away and ran across the road before collapsing to the ground and refusing to be moved.

The court heard once handcuffed and assessed by paramedics, Kleinschmidt blew 0.282 in a roadside breath test some 20 minutes after the crash.

The reading could not be confirmed when he refused to provide a sample of blood at Princess Alexandra Hospital.

The court was told Kleinschmidt again lay flat on the ground at the hospital to hinder police directions.

The offending came after two previous drink drive offences, the last of which occurred in 2011 when he drove with a 0.083 per cent blood-alcohol level.

Defence solicitor Shane McDowell said the incident came as a “very big wakeup call” for his client who had recently suffered problems with alcoholism.

Kleinschmidt leaves Wynnum Magistrates Court.

Mr McDowell said Kleinschmidt had been let go on July 16 from a position for which he had been headhunted some four months before and claimed to remember nothing of the ordeal, other than waking up in hospital.

It was noted the defendant would have no avenue of claim for compensation from his vehicle manufacturer for the failure of his airbag, due to being intoxicated at the time of the crash.

The court heard Kleinschmidt had remained unemployed since the crash while focusing on rehabilitation and had completed the Queensland Traffic Offenders Program.

Magistrate Zachary Sarra asked the defendant to employ his numerical skills to assess the state’s current road toll numbers when the last three years’ statistics were presented to him at the bar table.

The court heard 200 people had so far died on our roads, the highest it has been in three decades.

Kleinschmidt was disqualified from driving for a further nine months and fined $1,600.

A criminal conviction was not recorded.