Kelvin Smith: Dover Heights serial drink driver avoids jail for Porsche crash

An eastern suburbs businessman was so drunk when he smashed his Macan into a parked BMW that he tried to flee the scene on three wheels.

A serial drink driver who ploughed his Porsche into another expensive car in Sydney’s east before driving off with one tyre missing has narrowly avoided a stint in prison.

Businessman Kelvin Smith, 63, was sentenced in Waverley Local Court on Wednesday having pleaded guilty to high-range drink driving and not give particulars.

It is his third high-range drink driving offence since 2011.

The agreed facts stated Smith was drinking vodka shots at Rose Bay Hotel on the evening of October 6 last year before he got behind the wheel of his Porsche Macan.

Kelvin Smith has a history of drink driving. Picture: Adam Yip

About 9pm, he crashed into a parked BMW on Military Rd in Dover Heights not far from his own home.

The impact was so severe it pushed the parked BMW onto the footpath and tore a wheel off Smith’s own vehicle, the agreed facts stated.

Smith fled the scene in his damaged Porsche but became stuck on a footpath about 1km up the road where police found him.

“He was attempting to accelerate however the vehicle was not moving,” the agreed facts stated.

Police arrested him and took him to Waverley Police Station where he returned a breath analysis of 0.198 - four times the legal alcohol limit for a driver on a full licence.

The court heard on Wednesday he was battling an alcohol addiction and he been admitted to a clinic since the crash, and was now taking medication.

High range drink driver Kelvin Smith (right) leaving Waverly Court with a supporter on the 24th of February. Picture: Adam Yip

The court also heard he was currently abstinent from alcohol.

Magistrate Carolyn Huntsman sentenced him to a 12-month term of imprisonment to be served by way of intensive correction in the community.

She also disqualified him from holding a licence for 12 months after which time he must hold an interlock licence for 48 months.

He was fined $600 for not giving his particulars to the owner of the damaged car after the crash.