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A drink-driver crashed into a house and a tree while fleeing from his brother, who had stabbed him with a hunting knife.
Jamie Douglas Boss, 36, pleaded guilty to drink driving when he appeared before Maryborough Magistrates Court on Wednesday.
The court heard Boss had driven to Tinana to visit his brother after working in the mines.
The brothers were drinking together when an argument between the two became heated.
Boss got in his car and went to reverse when he was stabbed in the leg with a hunting knife by his brother.
The shock led to him accelerating instead of reversing, the court heard.
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