OWI Alert: Drugged Driver Terrorized Tosa Village, Crashed and Ran

Large crowd gathers to tell police how man careened across State Street and over the sidewalk, just missing children, before hit-and-run smashup in Chancery parking lot. Also, a round-up of seven other recent OWI arrests on the streets of Tosa.

An unseasonably warm Sunday evening that brought out strollers and diners in the Village was interrupted by a jaw-dropping, heart-stopping crash that only by luck caused no injuries. Police interviewed more than a dozen witnesses who saw a drugged driver speeding and swerving down Wauwatosa Avenue, through the Village and across busy State Street before plowing into parked cars and a concrete wall. At 8:08 p.m. March 18, a 45-year-old Milwaukee man was arrested for OWI-drugs, his third offense, after he was captured fleeing from the scene of the crash in the parking lot at The Chancery, 7615 W. State St. According to police reports: It began with a 911 call from a man traveling south on Wauwatosa Avenue who said he was following a driver …

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