ASHWAUBENON, WI (WTAQ) – An Ashwaubenon Public Safety officer is in critical but stable condition after being hit by a vehicle driven by a drunk driver over the weekend.
Officer Brian Murphy was responding as back up to the scene of a vehicle fire along Interstate 41 near Waube Lane Saturday night.
Murphy was struck by a vehicle driven by 28-year-old Kalin McGuire of Greenleaf.
“A 2-year veteran of Ashwaubenon Public Safety was outside of his vehicle and was wearing his reflective safety vest. He had his emergency lights lit, along with cones and flares out on the roadway to divert traffic at the scene of a vehicle fire,” explains Captain Jody Crocker.
Crocker says 34-year-old Murphy was then hit by a vehicle and found on the side of the road by a fellow officer.
Murphy was transported to a local hospital where he received life-saving surgery.
Chief Eric Dunning says this is the first time in over 20 years that one of their officers didn’t make it home at the end of the day.
“Saturday night, one of ours didn’t go home. As a son, a father, a husband, we want him to go home and that’s our goal,” said Dunning.
McGuire had cash bond set at $20,000 Monday. She has been charged with felony counts of Injury of Intoxicated Use of a Vehicle and OWI Causing Injury with a Passenger Under the Age of 16.
The 28-year-old is due back in court August 8.
The Brown County Sheriff and the Wisconsin State Patrol is conducting the crash investigation.
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Officer Brian Murphy, a two-year veteran of the Ashwaubenon Public Safety Department, was the officer injured in a crash on Interstate 41 Saturday night.
The department says he was wearing a reflective safety vest while out of his squad car helping at the scene of a vehicle fire near Waube Lane.
There were cones placed around his vehicle, which had its lights on. There were also flares lit.
The department says the driver that hit Murphy was a 28-year-old woman from Greenleaf.
Authorities said over the weekend that the driver was drunk.
Murphy underwent surgery that officers described as life-saving. He is still listed in critical condition.
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ASHWAUBENON, WI (WTAQ) – An Ashwaubenon Public Safety officer suffered life threatening injuries after being hit by a vehicle on Interstate 41.
Ashwaubenon Public Safety says one of its officers was outside of his patrol car at the scene of a car fire in the southbound lanes of the interstate, south of Waube Lane, around 11:25 p.m. Saturday.
Officials say a passing vehicle hit him.
He was transported to a local hospital for treatment.
The Brown County Sheriff’s Office and the Wisconsin State Patrol is conducting a crash investigation.
The driver of the vehicle that struck the officer was arrested for operating while under the influence of alcohol.
