MADISON, Wis. –The Peoria man killed in a crash allegedly caused by an intoxicated driver has been identified.
The Dane County Medical Examiner on Thursday identified the victim as 58-year-old David Street of Peoria.
An examination confirmed Street died from injuries he suffered in the crash that happened during the pre-dawn hours of Apr. 7.
25 News through sister station WMTV reports the other driver, Jesse Boley of Stoughton, Wisconsin, was charged earlier this week with homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle.
Prosecutors allege Boley was headed the wrong way, possibly with his headlights turned off, on northbound I-39/90, near the Cottage Grove interchange early when his GMC pickup collided with an oncoming Dodge Avenger, reportedly driven by Street.
The first Wisconsin State Patrol trooper to arrive on scene, around 2:45 a.m., reported both the truck and Street’s vehicle sustained significant front-end damage, the criminal complaint against Boley, 36, stated.
Street was pronounced dead at the scene.
When the trooper approached the pickup, he found Boley crawling away from his truck, the complaint continued. Prosecutors recounted the trooper described a stench of intoxicants coming off Boley and his report that the Stoughton man slurred when speaking and had a “1,000-yard stare” in his glassy, bloodshot eyes.
When asked why he was going the wrong way on the Interstate, Boley allegedly responded, “I have no idea.”
The complaint alleges he also told the trooper that he had “not much” and “not a drop” of alcohol that night. According to prosecutors, the trooper responded that those two statements were contradictory and Boley explained, “Because not much is zero.” A search of the truck turned up more than a dozen Adderall pills and two vape pens, the trooper reported.
Because of Boley’s injuries, authorities did not conduct a field sobriety test, but they did get a warrant for a blood draw, the complaint explained; however, prosecutors did not include the results of the test in their court filing.
In addition to the homicide charge, Boley is accused of second-degree recklessly endangering safety and knowingly operating a motor vehicle on a suspended driver’s license.
Prosecutors used the complaint to highlight Boley’s driving record, going so far as to include a printout of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s report. It included more than two dozen listed violations in the past five years as well as three different occasions when his license was suspended.
