GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – A Manitowoc man is facing over a quarter-century in prison after causing a motorcycle crash while drunk.
24-year-old Dustin M. Yanda is facing five charges, including injury by intoxicated use of a vehicle, knowingly operating while revoked causing great bodily harm and 4th offense OWI.
According to the criminal complaint, Brown County Sheriff’s Deputies were called to a two-vehicle accident at County Highway KB and Irish Road in the Town of New Denmark on May 31, 2014.
Upon arrival, officers noticed two men and their motorcycles laying in the south ditch. One of them, identified as Dustin Yanda, was taken by Eagle III to a hospital. The other man was taken by ambulance.
Yanda, per the complaint, was unconscious as he arrived at the ER and had visible signs of injuries, “Including a broken/missing right index finger and visible facial and head trauma.”
The other victim told deputies that around 8:20 p.m. he and Yanda were on a motorcycle ride when Yanda struck the rear of his motorcycle, causing him to lose control.
The victim said that the impact of the strike by Yanda’s bike forced him into that ditch. He admitted that both of them had been riding most of the day and, “Had a few beers over the course of several hours.”
One witness who lives near the crash scene says he saw, “Approximately 5 motorcycles accelerating eastbound on KB, going very fast down the road and passing each other.” Shortly after the bikes passed his home, he heard what sounded like a crash. The man went to the site of the crash and pulled the drivers out from the water in the ditch.
The victim in this crash sustained, “An open fracture of shaft of fibula with tibia, a tibia fracture, a right open ankle fracture and pneumothorax (collapsed lung).” He underwent surgery to place pins in his legs.
The complaint also states that Yanda submitted to a blood test, which revealed that his blood alcohol content was 0.20 percent.
Yanda’s license, according to investigators, was revoked at that time due to his 3 prior OWIs.
Dustin Yanda is due in Brown County court on March 25 for his preliminary hearing.
