Kelton Snulligan. PC: Fox 11 Online
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — The driver who caused a double-fatal crash in Allouez was allegedly drunk and speeding to take someone to the hospital for suspected alcohol poisoning, according to the criminal complaint filed Wednesday.
Kelton Snulligan was charged with six counts, include two of intoxicated use of a motor vehicle for the July 21 crash on Webster Avenue. An initial court appearance is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.
Trevor Hermon — a passenger in Snulligan’s car — and Luis Rios-Alvarado — who was driving the vehicle Snulligan struck — were killed in the crash, while several others were injured.
According to the criminal complaint:
One of the passengers in the vehicle Snulligan was driving told police they had been drinking. They were concerned one of the group had alcohol poisoning, so they were headed to Bellin Hospital.
The owner of the Mercedes-Benz which Snulligan was driving was riding in the front passenger seat.
“As we approached the intersection, a small black car, like a Ford Focus, turned left from the oncoming lane across our path. They seemed to hesitate before turning. We were most likely going faster than the speed limit,” the passenger said. “I recall that we were going more likely faster than 55 MPH.”
The same passenger “described the crash and that if they had been going slower, that the vehicle which turned in front of them probably would’ve made it through the intersection,” the complaint states.
Field sobriety tests were not performed because of Snulligan’s injuries. Blood was drawn, but test results are not cited in the complaint.
The crash was one of two in Brown County over the weekend that highlight what authorities call a “growing problem” of reckless driving.
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