Brayden Crammond, 20, caught four times over the limit less than a year after brother’s crash death
Brayden Crammond was passed out behind the wheel of his ute nearly four times over the limit less than a year after his brother died on the road.
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A drunk driver was found passed out in his car and blew nearly four times over the limit less than a year after his brother died in a horror road smash, the ACT Magistrates Court has heard.
Brayden Riley Crammond, 20, of Googong in NSW, on Tuesday pleaded guilty to drink-driving after blowing 0.19 in September last year, when he drove over the gutter and crashed into a bollard in a carpark at Weston.
A bystander called police, who found Crammond unconscious and slumped over the steering wheel of his Holden Rodeo.
When police managed to wake Crammond, his breath smelt of booze, his eyes were “bloodshot, watery and sleepy” and his was pale, court records show.
Crammond at first denied crashing into the Wooden bollard, which was out of the ground and next to his dented ute.
In court on Monday, Crammond’s lawyer said her client only had a few drinks that day, before drinking “three large glasses of cask wine, or goon as he calls it” before dropping a friend home.
“He believed that because he had only just consumed that alcohol, he would have some time before he became intoxicated,” she said.
The court heard Crammond’s older brother died in a car crash less than a year earlier.
Magistrate James Stewart said: “Anyone who thinks they can have three large glasses of wine and then drive is wrong.”
Crammond says he gave his keys to a friend so he could sleep in his car, a claim which police could not verify.
Mr Stewart said Crammond was lucky he didn’t hurt himself or anyone else, and his drink driving could have resulted in his parents losing a second son on the road.
“Grief is a terrible thing, getting drunk and getting behind the wheel is no way to deal with it,” he said.
“There’s been enough grief in your family.
“I’m not sure that alcohol is a way to deal with it.”
Mr Stewart convicted Crammond, disqualified him for six months and imposed a good behaviour order.