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The Canberra Times
Hannah Neale

Drink driver sentenced for crash 'like something from a horror movie'

Braydon O'Leary, inset, arrives at court on Wednesday, and the crash. Pictures by Douglas Lima, Hannah Neale

A man, who suffered broken bones and a brain injury when his friend drunkenly crashed into a tree, "is beyond lucky to be alive," a court has heard.

"It was like something from a horror movie," the victim's sister said in an emotional impact statement to the ACT Magistrates Court on Wednesday.

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