Alex James Owen of Bank Street, Molong, scratched the side of a Subaru Forester in a shopping centre car park in Orange when he hastily reversed a car belonging to a friend’s mother on April 10.

According to police facts he then continued driving to avoid a shopping centre security guard who had called out to Owen and his passengers.

He was fined $110 for failing to give his particulars to the owner of the other car.

Owen was also disqualified from driving for 12 months and he was ordered to complete 50 hours worth of community service for driving when his driver’s licence was disqualified.

His provisional one licence had previously been disqualified from July 4, 2016, to July 4, 2017.

For not reversing safely he was fined $110.

On August 5, police were called to Shamrock Place in Orange after Owen crashed his mother’s car into a tree.

He was charged after refusing to submit to a breath analysis.

According to police, when they arrived he said “I’m drunk, lock me up,” but afterwards refused to give a breath test at the scene or at the police station.

Magistrate David Day said refusing to submit to breath analysis incurred the same penalty as high-range drink driving before he disqualified Owen from driving for 12 months, he also gave him a two-year good behaviour bond.

Owen was fined $110 for driving without having his provisional driver’s licence on him.

He was also convicted without further penalty for not correctly displaying a P-plate, police said the back P-plate was mostly obscured by the number-plate but they could not check the status of the front P-plate because there was a “tree embedded in the bonnet”.

His barrister Bill Walsh said Owen has been out of trouble for the past six months and had shown more remorse for his offences.