Steven Dybacz: Recruitment boss sentenced for negligent driving, refusing breath test

A successful recruitment company owner left a hefty damage bill when he had “six pints of beer” and caused a crash involving several luxury cars, before claiming to police the “driver ran away”.

A high-flying recruitment company owner caused $400,000 worth of damage when he “had six pints of beers” and drove his luxury Audi into a Land Rover, sparking a domino-effect crash involving four cars.

Steven David Dybacz’s case was “very disturbing,” a magistrate warned, referring to the 39-year-old’s refusal to admit to police he was the driver or take a follow up breath test after the first one returned a high range reading.

The owner of the Project Professional Services (PPS) company, who lives in Bronte and has more than 11,000 LinkedIn followers, was sentenced for negligent driving and refusing to take a roadside breath test.

According to agreed facts, Dybacz was turning on Arden St in Waverley at 7:30pm on July 23 in his Audi RSQ8 when he rear-ended a parked luxury Land Rover Defender 90.

The force caused the Land Rover to jolt forward and hit the back of a parked Volkswagon Polo, which then rear-ended a parked Subaru XV.

Steven David Dybacz. Picture: Facebook

All parked cars were unattended, but the sound of the crash caused the owner of the Land Rover to come out and confront Dybacz, to which Dybacz said: “sorry, my bad,” court documents read.

The estimated damage to all cars was worth about $400,000, including $255,000 for the Audi and $110,000 for the Land Rover.

Dybacz leaves Waverley Local Court after being charged with negligent driving and refusing a breath test.

When police attended the scene, Dybacz said the “driver ran away” but a search on the system found the car to be owned by Dybacz’ company, PPS.

A stubborn Dybacz still would not say who the driver was and refused to show his licence.

A roadside breath test returned a positive result of 0.252 and Dybacz was taken to Waverley police station.

When police went to Dybacz’ home to ask his partner if he was driving at the time, she said words to the effect of: “he f***ing was, he’d never let anyone else drive that car”.

The facts stated an obviously drunk Dybacz told police in custody he’d had four to five schooners of beer in 2.5 hours and had pizza for dinner.

Police tried to get him to do a follow up breath test four times but he refused or did so incorrectly, before clarifying he’d actually had six pints of beer.

Two days later, Dybacz attended the police station and this time admitted he was the driver and co-operated with police.

Dybacz’ lawyer Isabel Muscatello told Waverley Local Court her client was clearly “extremely intoxicated” when he lost control while on his way home from a friend’s place, and did not initially take responsibility but had since done so.

“He has been quite distressed … he suffers from anxiety and stress,” she said.

“He served in the British army from ages 16-20 and underwent firearms training. He frequently suffers low moods. He owns his own business which was extremely impacted by Covid”.

Magistrate Jacqueline said the drink driving and Dybacz’ awful attitude towards police was very disturbing.

She said he’d since shown remorse and got help for his problem drinking.

Dybacz pleaded guilty to and was convicted of negligent driving and refusing to submit a breath test. He was fined $3000 and had his licence suspended for nine months with the requirement to have an interlock device for 24 months.