A MAN was detained after a car crashed at Hurn in the early hours of Monday morning.
Police, ambulance and fire crews from Christchurch and Springbourne were called to the scene outside the Avon Causeway hotel shortly after 2am.
A police spokesman said the silver BMW, registered to a Christchurch man, had come off the road and gone into a ditch, before the car bounced back into the road.
Firefighters helped to make the vehicle involved safe before looking for the driver with a thermal imaging camera, to no avail.
Police said a man was then found wandering around and he was detained for a possible drink-driving offence.
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