‘I should have ordered Uber Eats’: Drunk driver rolls car in Coogee
A drunk driver who ploughed into two parked cars and flipped his vehicle in Coogee - later admitting to police that he should have ordered Uber Eats - has been convicted for high-range drink driving over the crash.
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A drunk driver who ploughed into two parked cars and flipped his vehicle in Coogee has been convicted and fined for high-range drink driving after confessing to police “I should have ordered Uber Eats”.
Timothy Dennis Deland-Cleveland, 30, from Maroubra, was sentenced at Waverley Local Court on Wednesday over the crash which happened on January 2 and landed him in hospital.
Acting Magistrate John Andrews told Mr Deland-Cleveland it was fortunate no-one was seriously injured in the crash which caused about $10,000 in damage to the parked vehicles and also saw him wreck his BMW.
“You are lucky you are here and did not hit anybody else.”
Mr Deland-Cleveland was convicted, disqualified from driving for one year, ordered to hold an interlock licence for 24 months after that period, and fined $500 for drive with high-range PCA.
The agreed facts stated he was driving along Rainbow St in Coogee about 1.30am on Wednesday, January 2 when he lost control of his BMW 318i and ploughed into two parked Toyotas.
“The BMW rolled onto its roof and came to rest at the intersection of Rainbow St and Marian St,” the facts read.
“The accused was trapped in the BMW and had to punch the window and crawl out of the wreck, resulting in minor cuts and abrasions to the accused’s hands and knees.”
Police arrived and found Mr Deland-Cleveland being treated by paramedics in an ambulance.
He was taken to hospital and a blood test was taken about two hours after the crash, which returned a blood-alcohol reading of 0.181.
The agreed facts said he told police “I knew I shouldn’t have driven” and that “I should have ordered Uber Eats”.
It was his first high-range drink driving offence. However, he was sentenced for a mid-range drink driving offence in 2007.
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