Home and Away actor pleads guilty to high-range drink-driving after 0.36 blood-alcohol reading following car crash

Australian actor Josh Quong Tart has pleaded guilty to high-range drink-driving after recording a blood-alcohol reading of 0.36 following a single-vehicle crash.

The 50-year-old, known for his roles in Home and Away, All Saints and Underbelly: Badness, was found behind the wheel of a white Toyota Corolla, which had crashed into a ditch near his Burrill Lake home. 

According to The Daily Telegraph, Josh had been drinking over several days before the incident.

Emergency services were called to River Road at Lake Tabourie, near the Princes Highway, shortly after 11.15am following reports of an accident.

Paramedics treated the actor at the scene before taking him to Milton Hospital, where he returned the reading.

A blood-alcohol concentration above 0.3 is considered potentially life-threatening and may result in unconsciousness, coma or death.

A NSW Police spokeswoman confirmed Quong Tart was charged with high-range prescribed concentration of alcohol on June 24.

'About 11.30am on Sunday, 12 April, 2026, emergency services were called to River Road, Lake Tabourie, near the Princes Highway, following reports of a single-vehicle crash,' the spokeswoman said.

'Officers attached to South Coast Police District responded to find a car had left the roadway and gone down a ditch.

'Following inquiries, the man was issued with a court attendance notice for high-range PCA.'

Quong Tart has since pleaded guilty to the charge and is due to appear at Newtown Local Court for sentencing on August 25.

The veteran actor has appeared in several of Australia's best-known television dramas.

He starred as Andrew 'Undies' Perish in the 2012 crime series Underbelly: Badness alongside Jonathan LaPaglia, who played Anthony 'Rooster' Perish, and Matt Nable as detective Gary Jubelin.

Josh also portrayed Matt Horner in 70 episodes of the medical drama All Saints between 1999 and 2004.

In 2007, he joined Home and Away as Miles 'Milco' Copeland, the long-lost twin brother of Kate Ritchie's much-loved character Sally Fletcher.

He is also an accomplished stage performer and previously played Scar in the Australian production of The Lion King, as well as Oscar Wilde in The Judas Kiss.

He previously avoided a criminal conviction in 2020 after a separate incident was dealt with under mental health legislation, according to The Daily Telegraph.