A P-plater who caused an accident has received hefty fines at Griffith Local Court.
Subscribe now for unlimited access.
$0/
(min cost $0)
or signup to continue reading
Tristan Mark Gibbs, 19, rolled his car with two passengers into a channel in Darlington Point in November last year.
He was charged with negligent driving, drink-driving, and having an unrestrained passenger.
Gibbs went to a party and drank six cans of Bundaberg Rum and 'goon', before driving with two 17-year-old female passengers, one who wasn't wearing a seat belt.
In the national park parallel to the Murrumbidgee River, he swerved the car, rolling it onto it's roof before it landed upright in the water.
His legal representative Piers Blomfield submitted Gibbs was in a social peer-group where drinking was a "culture".
Magistrate Joy Bolous said he was very lucky no-one was killed, noting the limit for provisional drivers is zero.
READ MORE
He received a conviction and $400 fine for negligent driving, a conviction, $330 fine, seven month disqualification and the minimum interlock period for drink-driving.
He was also convicted with no further penalty for having an unrestrained passenger.