Driver on a rim and a prayer

A DRUNK driver who drove his car for about 6km on Toowoomba streets with one tyre down to its rim had blown a breath/alcohol reading more than three times the legal limit.

Police responding to a report of hooning on a Rangeville street about 2.30am on March 1, arrived to find the remains of a car tyre on the street and rim marks which led to the nearby home of Brady Paul Jackson.

The 30-year-old admitted to police he had driven from near Bunnings on Ruthven St to his home in Rangeville, Toowoomba Magistrates Court heard.

Smelling of alcohol, he told police he had drunk two stubbies of Great Northern beer when he got home, police prosecutor Catherine Nielsen told the court.

He blew a breath/alcohol reading of 0.151.

Police had later tracked the rim-marks to Mackenzie St, Cohoe St, across James St to Tourist Road and had noted that the car had appeared to have collided with concrete gutters, the edge of a roundabout and a traffic island along the way, Senior Constable Nielsen said.

Asked why he had driven the car in such a state, Jackson told police he had kept driving because he had no-one around to help him at the time, she said.

He told police he couldn’t remember hitting any roundabouts or concrete borders, Snr Const. Nielsen said.

The self-represented Jackson pleaded guilty to driving while under the influence of liquor and to driving without due care and attention.

He told Magistrate Damian Carroll that he needed his licence for his mobile detailing business and asked the court for some leniency.

Mr Carroll ordered the convictions not be recorded and disqualified Jackson from holding or obtaining a driver’s licence for the mandatory minimum of six months but fined him $1250.