Two People Injured in a Two-car Crash

An elderly man is suspected of driving drunk and crashing his car head on into another car.

Howard Adsit, 68, of Kenosha, was arrested for causing injury by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle, having open intoxicants in the car, and speeding too fast for conditions. The Racine County District Attorney’s Office has also charged Adsit with two counts of causing injury by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle.

Adsit was driving a Lincoln Town car northbound Wednesday night in the 7500 block of Douglas Avenue when he crashed into a Chevrolet Blazer driven by Kenneth Mitchell, 21, of Caledonia.

According to a report by the Caledonia Police Department, the Town Car wound up sideways in the northbound lane of Douglas Avenue with severe frontend damage. The Blazer ended up in the southbound lane pushed into a snow bank with moderate frontend damage.

Mitchell and his brother, Troy Mitchell, 17, were both were taken to the hospital for non-life threatening injuries.

Kenneth told police the Lincoln traveled at a high rate of speed, entered an unplowed section of the roadway, lost control and collided head on with the Blazer. The road had not been plowed and the snow was over one-foot deep.

Adsit, who was not injured in the crash, could not tell police how the crash occurred. He only told police he was trying “to get to a motel on Sheridan Road.” Officers found a nearly empty bottle of vodka and an unopened bottle in the car.

Adsit is being held on a $2,000 bond.