Blake Sidney Anderson of Boorowa had been lucky to escape serious injury after he had been drinking and crashed his car twice in the early hours of Sunday April 15, 2018.

“I am concerned about the ingestion of alcohol after the accident,” Magistrate Michael O’Brien said after he had read the facts.

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According to the agreed upon facts Anderson wrote in a statement to police that he had consumed four and a half mouthfuls of straight Jack Daniels whiskey after the accident to try and calm his nerves.

The police facts said that Anderson had started drinking at 3pm in the afternoon after he had finished playing football. After leaving the pub at 12am, Anderson, between 2am and 2.30am, decided to drive to his family’s farm.

On the drive home Anderson believes he must have fallen asleep at the wheel causing the vehicle to veer to the left of the roadway and collide with a small tree before he woke up and corrected the vehicle back on the road.

 A further two kilometers up the road Anderson fell asleep again and the vehicle veered to the left of the roadway and crashing heavily into a large gum tree.

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“Anything that I do today is nothing compared to the fact, indeed the relief that you should have that you are alive to tell the tale,” Magistrate O’Brien said.

After Anderson freed himself from the vehicle he then walked around three kilometers to the family farm where he realised he was locked out of the house and had lost his phone so he couldn’t ring emergency services.

 Later a motorist notified police of the abandoned vehicle. Police found Anderson and took him to hospital. 

“You chose to put your life and other lives at risk. You nearly lost your own life and I simply can’t ignore that,” Magistrate O’Brien said. “This is a fail with a big red stamp on it.”