Driver cracked open drink after car ploughed into family home, witnesses allege

Friday, 31 October 2025 17:11

CCTV vision has captured the moment residents and neighbours tackled a suspected drunk driver to the ground after a car ploughed into a driveway in Melbourne's south-east.

CCTV vision has captured the moment residents and neighbours tackled a suspected drunk driver to the ground after a car ploughed into a home in Melbourne's south-east.

Vision shows the blue Holden station wagon lose control about 11.30pm last night and hit a car parked in a driveway on Breamlea Way in Cranbourne West.

The force of the smash pushed the parked car through the garage of the family home, destroying a brick pillar and causing significant damage to the house's structure, as well as the vehicle.

A family of three were inside the home at the time, but thankfully weren't injured.

Resident Janet Adams described waking to the sound of an explosion before opening the front door to see "a plume of dust and smoke" outside the home.

"We're so fortunate that none of us were injured. The house is broken but that can be fixed," she said.

Police allege the driver of the Holden attempted to flee the scene but was restrained by residents until officers arrived.

"[We] all came running out, he was climbing out of the car, stumbling around, went back, got his cans and then tried to take off to the corner where everybody sort of jumped on him, pinned him down," neighbour Ebony Hall said.

Witnesses claim the driver continued drinking mango-peach flavoured vodka drinks after the crash.

"He was still drinking, yeah, blood coming out of his mouth, like pinned to the floor, but he still wanted to drink, he wanted to smoke, he just wouldn't wouldn't stop," resident Dylan Visscher said.

"There were probably three cans littered across the driveway."

The alleged driver, a 27-year-old Cranbourne man, was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

An investigation into the crash is ongoing.

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