A drunk driver who crashed his car into the nature strip outside Box Hill police station this morning, emerged from the wreckage and wished police a “happy new year”.

The man escaped unharmed from his overturned vehicle.

Yes, the driver was rolling drunk.

The 52-year-old Box Hill man was travelling west along Whitehorse Road about 2.40am when the car veered onto the nature strip outside the police station, crashed into two street lights and rolled onto its roof.

The car came to stop in a garden bed in the middle of the nature strip. Police inside the station heard the crash and rushed to the scene where they discovered the man was unharmed but appeared very intoxicated.