A young man allegedly cracked open a tinnie just seconds before he was tackled to the ground after an out-of-control car ploughed into a family home.
Police allege a blue Holden station wagon lost control on Breamlea Way in Cranbourne West, southeast Melbourne, shortly before 11.30pm on Thursday.
CCTV footage captured the shocking moment the station wagon collided with a parked vehicle and rammed it into the garage of a nearby home.
A concrete pillar was damaged, showering bricks down onto the ground.
The family-of-three were home at the time but were fortunately not injured.
After the collision, the driver was allegedly seen stepping out of the car and cracking open a can of a mango-peach flavoured vodka drink.
He was then tackled to the ground by neighbours as he tried to flee and restrained until Victoria Police officers arrived at the scene.
‘(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 told 9News.
A blue Holden station wagon lost control on Breamlea Way in Cranbourne West shortly before 11.30pm on Thursday. It collided with a parked vehicle which pushed it into a family home
CCTV footage showed driver stepping out of the car before being tackled by neighbours
The driver allegedly opened a mango-peach vodka drink after the collision
The family described seeing a ‘plume of dust’ after the crash, adding that they were lucky not to have been hurt during the incident.
Gerry Visscher said the collision ‘sounded more like an explosion, like a bomb going off, or something that was bizarre’.
A 27-year-old Cranbourne man was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after the incident.
Anyone who witnessed the incident, has CCTV, dashcam footage or any other information has been urged to contact Crime Stoppers.