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Drunk Driving Accident

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Man Charged in Friday Drunk Driving Crash

Suspect tells police he drank five beers and two shots before driving, but claims he was doing the speed limit when an SUV turned left in front of him.

  • POLICE & FIRE
  • Joe Petrie
  • Tuesday, November 13, 2012

A 22-year-old Pleasant Prairie man is accused of crashing into an SUV while driving drunk and speeding through Caledonia Friday. Kevin T. Rasch was charged in Racine County Circuit Court Monday with one count of causing injury while intoxicated and six counts of second-degree reckless endangerment. If convicted, he faces up to 31 years in prison and $152,000 in fines. According to the criminal complaint: On Friday, Caledonia police officers were called to a car crash at the intersection of Highway 32 and 5 Mile Road, involving three cars, one of which was missing. A car with three people inside stopped headed eastbound on 5 Mile saw an SUV waiting to turn left from northbound Highway 32, when Rasch came speeding southbound in a Pontiac …

Monday, October 29, 2012

A Nurse Gets Naughty... A Little Too Naughty

A Union Grove woman finds out the hard way that her costume choice should have been well thought out in case she was pulled over by the police.

Turns out that wearing a naughty nurse costume isn’t really conducive to performing a proper field sobriety test at 3 a.m. on a Sunday morning. According to a report by the Caledonia Police Department, an 18-year-old Union Grove woman donning a nurse’s costume was arrested for operating left of center, drunk driving, possession of open intoxicants, having a prohibited blood alcohol level and possession of marijuana. An officer was traveling northbound on Highway 31 from Harvest Lane when he realized a car, traveling in the wrong direction, was driving towards him. The woman who was driving the car had to swerve back into the southbound lane to avoid the crash. The woman told the officer she and the passengers in the car had been at a …

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