Adelaide Crows defender Rory Laird reveals close call with dangerous DUI crash

A star Adelaide Crows player has recounted the “danger” of witnessing a car “flying” past him and his fiancee and into a Stobie pole.

Adelaide Crows star Rory Laird has revealed how he was left “shook” after he and his fiance watched a car “flying past” them and colliding with a Stobie pole.

Laird and his partner, Ellie Taylor – who became engaged in October – were walking one evening when the pair became “first responders at a DUI crash”.

“The guy came flying past us, Ellie and I, and I tell you what, I was pretty shook from it,” Laird said on Triple M on Saturday.

Rory Laird and Ellie Taylor, who got engaged in October, were “first responders” to a dangerous crash. Picture: Instagram/Rory Laird

“Bloke came absolutely flying past straight into a Stobie pole. So I’m running down the street.

“It’s probably as close to some danger as I’ve ever got.”

Multiple similar Stobie pole crashes have happened in South Australia in recent months.

A 25-year-old Findon man, recorded a blood alcohol reading of 0.148 after crashing with a power pole at Torrensville about 1am on March 14.

Peak hour traffic was thrown into chaos on April 22 after a car collided with a Stobie pole on Portrush Rd in Adelaide’s eastern suburbs.

Just over a month later, a truck also disrupted peak traffic and brought down power lines after a crash on South Rd at St Marys on May 30.

Originally published as Adelaide Crows defender Rory Laird reveals close call with dangerous DUI crash