Drink-driving teen crashes dad's £100k sports car into house

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Harry Bishop has admitted crashing his dad's £100,000 sports car into a house in Sutton Coldfield while twice over the drink drive limit.

The teenager ploughed the Audi R8 into the front of the property causing more than £5,000 worth of damage.

The 19-year-old appeared before Birmingham magistrates and pleaded guilty to driving a motor vehicle while above the alcohol limit, using a motor vehicle without insurance and taking it without the consent of the owner.

The teen took the car after his father had left the keys to the R8 down stairs and had gone to bed, then at about 5am he was awoken by his son who told him ‘I have just crashed your car into a house.”

The Father and son then went back to the location and Police arrived on the scene to carry out a breath test, he was found to have 83 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35.

After the incident Harold 72, and Janet, 71, who had been asleep less than 2ft from where the car landed, told how the white sports car destroyed the front fence and wall and smashed down their front door and part of the porch.

We were asleep when all of a sudden ‘boom!’ there was a massive bang and I thought a bomb had gone off. We looked out of the window and saw this white car was next to the house sideways on to the pavement.”

– Harold Perry

The case has been sent to Crown Court and Bishop was bailed to appear there on June 26.