Timothy Millar: Pill-popping P-plate drunk flipped car on freeway

Nine days after being banned for an “almost lethal” ecstasy and alcohol-fuelled crash this dodgy Pearcedale motorist got back behind the wheel.

Timothy Millar was high on ecstasy and booze when he flipped his car on a freeway.

A messed-up motorist smashed into a concrete barrier and rolled his brother’s car the morning after partying with his mates, a court has heard.

But Timothy Millar didn’t learn his lesson, jumping back into the driver’s seat of another motor — this time belonging to his parents — soon after.

The 21-year-old Pearcedale P-plate apprentice plumber pleaded guilty to drug, drink and suspended driving charges at the Frankston Magistrates’ Court on Friday.

The court heard at 6.30am on December 13 last year Millar crashed into a barrier on Peninsula Link in Frankston North.

The Mazda spun 360 degrees, flipped over and landed astride two lanes of the major freeway.

Luckily there were no other cars on the road at that time.

Police were called and Millar was taken by ambulance to The Alfred hospital for observation.

There he registered an alcohol level of .085 and tested positive for MDMA, or ecstasy.

He was served with a licence ban on January 21 this year, telling police he was “not sure where he was going” when he had the crash and had “no idea” how the accident happened.

Nine days later he was nabbed behind the wheel of another car on Baxter-Tooradin Rd in Pearcedale.

He said he knew he was suspended and he was “on his way to see a girl”.

That car, belonging to his parents, was impounded.

Defence lawyer Sandy Kaur said Millar had issues with memory and decision-making after suffering a severe concussion playing soccer and being involved in a head-on accident.

She said the night before the crash he had been out with friends, taken MDMA and drunk booze before going to bed at 1am.

She said he got in the car later that morning thinking he would be OK to drive, but may have fallen asleep behind the wheel before hitting the barrier.

Magistrate Richard Pithouse said it was fortunate Millar wasn’t in a higher court facing years in prison on a culpable driving charge.

“This was an almost lethal combination of drugs and alcohol,” Mr Pithouse said.

“It is fortuitous for you when you flipped your car that you or no one else was killed; it was not skill that saved you, it was pure luck.

“I don’t know what you were thinking.”

Millar was disqualified from driving for 15 months, and fined $1250. No conviction was recorded.