An energy-absorbing tyre barrier has been installed at the intersection of Oamaru's Orwell and Humber Sts, where a drink-driver ploughed into a house earlier this month.
Waitaki District Council roading manager Michael Voss said the intersection was identified as high risk after the August 2 crash, believed to be at least the fourth there.
The drink-driver failed to take the corner at the end of Humber St, at the Orwell St intersection, and continued straight on, smashing through a fence and the outside roughcast wall of Louise and Paul Daley's house.
He continued through a bedroom and an internal wall and came to rest in the lounge, 5m into the house, moving a log burner and furniture on impact.
The ''energy-absorbing'' tyre wall would hopefully stop cars from going any further in the event of another crash, Mr Voss said.
The council planned to put plants in the tyre wall to ''make it more of a feature''.
Joshua Scott Gordon (22), freezing worker, of Oamaru, has pleaded guilty to charges of drink-driving (950mcg), causing injury and careless driving causing injury, in Orwell St on August 2.
He has been remanded on bail for sentencing in the Oamaru District Court on October 22.
