Ricardo Manuel dos Santos Lopes (22), of Bagot Road, St Saviour, admitted driving without due care and attention in Waterworks Valley shortly before 7 pm on 15 May.
His grey Audi A3 Sport suffered significant damage in numerous places and debris was left spread across the road.
A police officer measured skid marks of 19 metres immediately before the point where the vehicle hit the wall on the side of the road.
Lopes, who suffered a head injury in the crash, initially claimed there had been a fault with the steering on the Audi.
But a DVS report concluded that the vehicle was in good mechanical condition before the accident.
Advocate Nicole Langlois, defending, said that it was no longer the defendant’s position that the vehicle was defective.
She said the accident was caused when he glanced to look at ducks and by the time he looked back to the road, he realised that he was already at the corner.
She said that it was ‘a momentary lapse of attention’ that resulted in ‘quite serious consequences’.
‘He cut his head quite badly and his car was extremely badly damaged,’ she said.
Advocate Langlois said that if Lopes was disqualified from driving, he would also lose his job as a storeman and driver with a local company.
In sentencing, Relief Magistrate Sarah Fitz described the accident as ‘a serious error of judgment’.
