Shock moment car flies through the air & smashes into house after driver got behind wheel after boozy bottomless brunch
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THIS is the shocking moment a drink-driver's car flies through the air before slamming onto a driveway just inches from a family's home. Lindami Mremi, 22, had been boozing with pals at a "bottomless brunch" before getting behind the wheel of a friend's Fiat Punto.
![[Lindami Mremi struck a lamppost in the Punto which was flung 20 feet into the air]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/passenger-innocent-bystander-driving-speed-957910462.png?strip=all&w=960)
CCTV shows him hurtling along Robin's Wood Road in Aspley, Nottingham, in the early hours of June 17 last year. He lost control and mounted the kerb before smashing into a lamppost at such speed it was ripped out of the ground. The impact flung the car 20ft into the air and narrowly missed smashing through the front of the house.
![[The car smashed onto the driveway]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/passenger-innocent-bystander-driving-speed-957910404.png?strip=all&w=960)
A roadside breath test showed Mremi had 81mcg of alcohol in 100ml of breath - more than twice the legal limit of 35mcg. A blood sample also showed he had 131 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood. The legal limit is 80mg. He told officers he had been to a bottomless brunch but thought if he kept eating it would "absorb the alcohol" and he could drive home.
![[It narrowly missed going through the house]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/passenger-innocent-bystander-driving-speed-957910403.png?strip=all&w=960)
Mremi, of Bulwell, Nottingham, admitted drink driving, dangerous driving and a Bail Act offence. He was handed a 24-week prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, and a 12-month driving ban at Nottingham Crown Court. He was also ordered to pay £1,800 compensation and complete up to 20 rehabilitation activity requirement days.
![[Mremi was breathalysed at the scene]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/passenger-innocent-bystander-driving-speed-957910401.png?strip=all&w=936)
