UPDATE: 4 victims identified from fatal Fitchburg crash
FITCHBURG, Wis. (AP) -- Dane County authorities investigating an apparent drunken-driving crash that killed four people say two victims were from Wisconsin, and the other two were from Illinois.
The medical examiner's office said Monday the Wisconsin victims were 18-year-old Jose Antonio Cabrera-Hernandez and 17-year-old Martin Sanchez-Gutierrez, both of Madison. The victims from Illinois were 17-year-old Phankham Chitanavong and 25-year-old Alan Michael Dickson, both of Rockford.
The crash happened Saturday just after 5 p.m. Police say a van sped through a stop sign in Fitchburg, hit railroad tracks and a utility pole and rolled.
The driver was an 18-year-old Madison man. Police say he fled and was arrested a few blocks away. He's being held on four tentative charges of homicide by drunken driving.
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FITCHBURG, Wis. (AP) -- Police investigating an apparent drunken-driving crash in Fitchburg that killed three passengers say a fourth person has now died.
The crash happened Saturday just after 5 p.m. Police say a van sped through a stop sign, hit railroad tracks and a utility pole and rolled.
Four people were ejected, none of whom was wearing a seatbelt. Three people died at the scene, and a fourth was airlifted to a hospital in critical condition. That person died Sunday.
A Wisconsin State Journal report says the driver was an 18-year-old Madison man. Police say he fled and was arrested a few blocks away. He's being held on four tentative charges of homicide by drunken driving.
A police sergeant says all five people were young adult males.
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Fitchburg, Wis. (AP) -- A driver has been arrested on tentative charges of homicide by drunken driving after a rollover crash in Fitchburg that killed three people and left a fourth critically injured.
Fitchburg police say early Sunday that more charges are expected.
Police Sgt. Don Bomkamp says the crash occurred about 5 p.m. Saturday. All five people in the car were men in their late teens or early 20s. Their names were not released.
The car was eastbound on Lacy Road when it went through a stop sign, hit railroad tracks and a utility pole, then rolled.
No one was wearing a seat belt. Four people were ejected -- three died at the scene. The driver fled and was arrested a few blocks away.
Police say speed and alcohol were factors.
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