Tosa OWI Arrests Include a Smashup and a Rollover

A pair of recent drunken driving episodes on the streets of Wauwatosa show just how dangerous it can be to oneself and others. Fortunately, in these instances, no one was hurt.

According to police reports:

At 7:28 p.m. Feb. 17, a 19-year-old Wauwatosa man was arrested for drunken driving, first offense, and his two passengers were arrested for underage drinking, after a rollover crash at North 65th Street and West Wisconsin Avenue.

Police found that the man’s car had skidded while turning at speed, hit a tree and then flipped onto its roof in a resident’s front yard.

Officers found the three occupants sitting nearby on the sidewalk, uninjured but highly intoxicated.

The driver told them, “Alcohol and I don’t get along.” His underage passengers were a Wauwatosa man and a Waukesha woman, both 20.

Trying to escape on three wheels

At 12:57 a.m. Feb. 24, a 29-year-old Milwaukee man was arrested for drunken driving, third offense, after he crashed into a parked car in the 6100 block of Blue Mound Road.

The crash was witnessed by a Milwaukee police officer who said the man made a wide, careening turn off Hawley Road in his pickup truck, with his headlights off, and then smacked into a parked Cadillac DeVille in front of the George Webb’s restaurant at 6108 Blue Mound Rd. so hard the pickup lost a front wheel.

Nevertheless, the driver tried to flee, but couldn’t move far on three good wheels. He was leaving his vehicle when the Milwaukee officer stopped him.

The wreck was in Wauwatosa, though, and a Tosa patrol officer spotted emergency lights and soon took over. The man refused to complete a field sobriety test and refused a breath test, so he was taken for a mandatory blood draw.

In other incidents:

At 11:14 p.m. Feb. 12, a 23-year-old Wauwatosa man was arrested for drunken driving, first offense, during a traffic stop in the 5800 block of West North Avenue after he was seen by a patrol officer speeding past at North 64th Street. He blew a .17 blood alcohol content on a breath test.

At 1:44 a.m. Feb. 25, a 33-year-old West Allis man was arrested for drunken driving, first offense, after an officer saw him driving erratically on Blue Mound Road and pulled him over at Glencoe Circle. The man appeared intoxicated, performed poorly on a sobriety test and then blew a BAC of 0.171.

At 11:53 p.m. Thursday, a 37-year-old Milwaukee man was arrested for drunken driving, first offense, after he was pulled over for suspended registration in the 2900 block of North Mayfair Road. He performed poorly on a sobriety test and blew a BAC of 0.17.

At 12:44 a.m. Sunday, a 36-year-old Milwaukee man was arrested for drunken driving, first offense, after he was stopped for speeding on Blue Mound Road at North 74th Street. The officer, on duty with the Multi-Jurisdictional OWI Task Force, smelled intoxicants and administered a field sobriety test and a preliminary breath test. The driver registered a 0.211 blood alcohol content on the preliminary test and later a 0.17 on an evidentiary test.