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Subscriber only A five-year-old girl and her parents are lucky to be alive after a drink driver crashed into their car head on, leaving the girl with a collapsed lung and a brain injury. Police found two 600ml plastic bottles with wine in Stephen Benjamin Hayes s car after the crash on December 14 in 2019. Hayes was more than twice the legal limit when he crashed into the victim family s car about 8.15pm on Diddillibah Road. The girl s mother managed to drag herself out of the window while her partner waited to be freed from the wreckage. The woman suffered a fractured thigh bone, knee and ankle and a deep cut to her knee.