A Lavington man is facing jail after crashing his car through a fence while so intoxicated that he immediately lost any memory of what happened.
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The reckless driving and a blood alcohol reading almost three times the legal limit meant such a sentence was paramount, police said.
"He was certainly so intoxicated that when a witness first spoke to him he said 'apparently I went through a fence'," prosecutor Sergeant Andrew Coombs told Albury Local Court magistrate Richard Funston.
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"He has no recollection of it. I would be submitting that the threshold (for a jail term) has been crossed."
Paul Allan Jewitt, 45, of Parkland Crescent, pleaded guilty to dangerous or reckless driving, driving with a mid-range prescribed concentration of alcohol, destroy or damage property and not give particulars to owner of damaged property.
The court was told that Jewitt was at the wheel of his partner's Nissan X-Trail all-wheel-drive.
He was heading along Cheyenne Drive, Lavington, on January 29 about 2am when turned a corner "at speed".
That resulted in him losing control of the SUV, effectively cutting the corner of Parkland Crescent.
Jewitt's vehicle crashed into the victim's welded-mesh fence and landed on a garden bed.
A loud bang woke the victim, who saw Jewitt in the driver's seat arguing with a woman.
Jewitt began to drive away while yelling at the woman, who was walking along the footpath, to "get in the car". He also yelled at the victim.
About 2.40am, police saw a clearly intoxicated Jewitt walking along the middle of Colley Street, Lavington, with a set of keys in his hand.
Asked if he knew why he was being arrested, Jewitt replied: "I went through a fence, man."
Jewitt was arrested and taken to the Albury police station, where he provided a blood alcohol reading of .140.
Mr Funston ordered a sentence assessment report for Jewitt, who will find out his fate on March 22.
