Road racer in wheelchair, court after high speed crash

A MAGISTRATE has told a young man who took part in "a foolish street race" on his birthday that he had paid a very high price after suffering serious injuries in a crash that destroyed his $58,000 Subaru.

Thomas Craig Wilson, 26, pleaded guilty in Gladstone Magistrates Court to driving without due care and attention on Chapman Drive at Clinton on March 30.

Prosecutor Sgt Pepe Gangemi said the blue Subaru was left embedded in a telephone pole and emergency rescue crews spent an hour freeing Wilson from the wreckage trapped by the steering wheel and dash.

Magistrate Penelope Hay was told Wilson suffered two broken legs, broken arm, fractured pelvis and ruptured bladder and spent three months in rehabilitation and likely to spend six months in the wheelchair before walking again.