Woodville West: Dramatic moment hooning car crashes and burst into flames before drunk driver flees from scene

Dramatic footage has captured the moment a driver performed high-speed burnouts before his car later crashed into a tree and burst into flames. 

Police were called to a street in the suburb of Woodville West, in Adelaide’s north west, at 1.45am on Monday after reports that a Holden sedan was on fire in the middle of the road.

The car had smashed into a tree before spinning out into the street where it had leaked a trail of petrol that soon caught alight.

CCTV footage captured the driver hooning through the deserted streets before the collision. 

The car erupted into a fireball after doing burnouts on the quiet suburban street

Witnesses, who reported hearing a ‘blast’, told police they saw the driver flee the scene as the vehicle went up in flames. 

CCTV from nearby homes shows a figure walking away down the street as the fireball erupts. 

Officers traced the registered owner to an address just a few streets away where he allegedly returned a breath test nearly twice the legal limit. 

Witnesses, who reported hearing a ‘blast’, told police they saw the driver flee the scene as the vehicle went up in flames

‘He was reported for drink driving, driving without due care and leaving the scene of an accident,’ a spokesperson for SA Police said. 

‘He lost his licence on the spot for six months.’

Police also confirmed the driver will be summonsed to appear in the Port Adelaide Magistrates Court at a later date.’