Drink-driver Michael Newport crashes car on Clarendon Drive, Somerville on way to Maccas
A SUPERMARKET worker has recorded a super-size reading after he smashed his car into a truck parked in a Somerville street.
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A SUPERMARKET worker recorded a super-size reading after he smashed his car into a truck parked in a Somerville street.
The Woolworths manager was less than fresh when he crashed his Commodore into the flat bed HGV in the early hours of the morning while four times over the legal alcohol limit.
He had been on a food run to Maccas, but lost control of his vehicle less than 150m from his Somerville home.
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Michael Newport, 31, pleaded guilty to drink-driving at Frankston Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
The court heard police attended a smash in Clarendon Drive, Somerville at around 2.30am on December 17 last year.
They found two men on a nature strip, a smashed up Holden Commodore wagon wedged in the back of a dented truck.
One of the men was driver Newport, who reeked of alcohol.
The other was the truck owner, who had had gone outside of his house when he heard a big bang.
Back at the police station Newport blew .210, and lost his licence on the spot.
He told officers he had been at a party and had downed around six schooners of beer, and that he had never done anything like that before.
Newport’s defence lawyer said his car, worth $16,000, was written off and he was unable to claim on insurance.
He says Newport, who had never been to court before, was remorseful, and counted himself lucky no-one was injured in the “lapse of judgement”.
He has since been demoted from his then Carrum Downs supermarket job to one based at Somerville.
Magistrate Julian Ayres said it was an “extremely salutary lesson” for Newport.
“It is a very high reading, it involved a crash,” Mr Ayres said.
“You were in no condition to drive at all.
“You have lost your car; some might say that is karma.”
Newport was convicted, fined $1500 and disqualified from driving for 21 months, backdated to December.