Preston Rogers-Brown, an electrician, said the Subaru Impreza must have been travelling at speed when it narrowly missed a power pole and careered into his work vehicle, parked in his Thompson St driveway, early yesterday.
‘‘We would have had a fatality then [had it hit the pole].''
The crash was the second that night caused by alleged drink-drivers.
In the space of three hours, two Queenstown men allegedly damaged seven vehicles, including their own, as they attempted to drive home.
Sergeant Keith Newell, of Queenstown, said the 29-year-old driver faced two charges of careless driving causing injury and one of drink-driving, after recording a breath-alcohol level of 469mcg.
The man failed to negotiate a right-hand bend in Thompson St, drove over the kerb and through a fence and shrubbery, before hitting the ute about 1.30am.
A front and rear seat passenger sustained minor injuries.
Mr Rogers-Brown, who is also a volunteer firefighter, said the distance his three-tonne ute was shunted - and the damage to a retaining wall behind it - suggested the car was travelling at high speed.
A neighbour, who did not want to be named, said the car demolished half the fence along his property's frontage, as well as the fence between the two properties.
A female passenger had facial cuts an injured foot and was ‘‘bawling her eyes out'', he said.
In the earlier incident, about 10.45pm on Tuesday, a 34-year-old Queenstown man almost four times the legal alcohol limit damaged four cars on his drive home.
Sgt Newell said the man first drove into a parked car in Park St, shunting it sideways and causing moderate damage.
He crashed into a second parked car, shunting it into a van, waking its sleeping occupant, who was uninjured.
He then hit a vehicle parked in Frankton Rd, causing extensive damage.
His driving prompted five calls to police.
Police found his extensively damaged vehicle outside a Frankton house.
After a breath-test returned a result of 937mcg, he was charged with drink-driving, dangerous driving and failing to stop to ascertain injury.
Sgt Newell said the incidents arose from people making ‘‘bad choices''.
Both men will appear in the Queenstown District Court next month.
