ABS-Eighteen-year-old Jayson Jarvis of Point has been fined $8,000 after taking his father’s unlicensed vehicle and driving with a female passenger before a crash near Valley Church.

Police say he was speeding on Valley Road, lost control, hit an oncoming SUV, and then crashed into a tree.

The passenger suffered minor injuries.

Jarvis admitted he had no driver’s licence and took the vehicle without his father’s knowledge.

He pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, driving without a driver’s licence, driving an unlicensed vehicle, and driving without insurance.

Chief Magistrate Ngaio Emanuel gave the teenager a year to pay the fines or serve prison time.