The man authorities arrested after an early morning car crash that killed three Chicago women Sunday has a 2015 conviction for driving while intoxicated, records show.
The Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office on Tuesday had not yet filed charges in the crash, despite a Monday arrest by the Milwaukee Police Department. A representative of the District Attorney’s Office said the case is under review by an attorney in that office, as is typical. The office will determine whether the arrest was substantiated.
The man is not being named because he has not been charged with a crime.
The man who was arrested Monday had in 2015 also pleaded guilty to a violation of driving while license revoked due to alcohol, controlled substance or refusal to submit to a breathalyzer.
It happened the night of Aug. 15 in the city of Mequon Wisc., records show. A police sergeant on patrol spotted a vehicle exit a private driveway in the 10700 block of Wauwatosa Road at 9:39 p.m. The vehicle then proceeded south in the northbound lanes of Wauwatosa for a short distance before entering a median break and moving to the southbound lanes, records show. The sergeant stopped the vehicle and learned the driver’s privileges had been revoked and he was arrested, records show.
Ashley Sawatzke, 30, Amy Taylor, 32, and Lindsey Cohen, 35, died after the crash about 2:45 a.m. Sunday in Milwaukee. The three friends were advertising executives in Chicago and had met through their work at the Energy BBDO firm. The women had requested Uber service to the Journeyman Hotel in the city’s Third Ward. Driver Tim Snyder picked them up in a 2013 Ford Fusion, according to police reports.
Less than a mile from the hotel, the Ford was struck by a Lexus SUV and the three women in the backseat, who were not wearing seatbelts, died as a result of their injuries. Police said the driver of the Lexus initially left the crash site. He appeared at a police station Monday, investigators said.
Snyder was taken to a hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries. A GoFundMe Page for him had raised thousands of dollars for his hospital expenses.
