A MAGISTRATE has told a young man it was pure luck he wasn't injured or worse after rolling his car while drink-driving.

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Jacob Tempest was fined $1000 and disqualified from driving for six months when he appeared before Mildura Magistrates' Court on Thursday.

While driving about 1.30am on September 8 last year, Tempest drifted off the road and hit an embankment, ...