Teen drove off from crash site

A TOOWOOMBA teenager who drove off after crashing his car while drink-driving has been placed on probation.

Quinn Mark Glenbar later confessed to police he had been drinking and was only on his learner’s licence when he lost control of his car and crashed into a stone wall on Tor St about 4.10am, November 1, last year.

Though he drove off, police had soon found the 18-year-old at a home a few streets away, Toowoomba Magistrates Court heard.

Breath-tested, the teenager returned a breath/alcohol reading of 0.09, police prosecutor Natalie Bugden said.

Three days later, CitySafe cameras in Toowoomba’s CBD had captured Glenbar arguing with a woman before kicking and smashing the glass panel of a Margaret St business leaving a damage bill of $1210, Sergeant Bugden told the court.

The teenager pleaded guilty to dangerous operation of a motor vehicle while adversely affected by liquor and wilful damage from those offences as well as to possessing 5g of marijuana found on him by police on February 9, last year, as well as to two counts of obstructing police arising from that incident.

His solicitor Chelsea Saldumbide told the court her client instructed he had since stopped smoking marijuana and that he no longer had a car.

Her client was remorseful for his behaviour on those occasions, she submitted.

Magistrate Andy Cridland placed Glenbar on two years probation to include random testing for illicit drugs, disqualified him from driving for 12 months and ordered he make restitution of $1210 for the smashed glass panel.

Taking into account his youth and pleas of guilty, Mr Cridland ordered the convictions not be recorded.