Charges have now been laid over a crash at Adamstown which left a backseat passenger seriously injured.
The driver, a 45-year-old man from Cooranbong, is accused of being drunk behind the wheel when he lost control on Glebe Road and slammed into a brick wall on October 5.
He's been charged with aggravated dangerous driving causing grievous bodily harm and is due to front Newcastle Local Court on January 19.
