Crime & Safety

Greenfield Man Injures 2 When Driving Home Drunk From Wedding, Complaint Says

Pick-up truck rolled over in two-vehicle crash in New Berlin on Sunday.

A 23-year-old Greenfield man driving home from a wedding is accused of being drunk and hitting a pick-up truck head-on, injuring his passenger and the driver of the pick-up truck on Sunday, according to a criminal complaint.

Anthony D. Sydlewski was charged in Waukesha County Circuit Court on Monday with two counts of second offense operating while intoxicated-causing injury, misdemeanor second offense operation while intoxicated and misdemeanor bail jumping. He faces up to six years in prison and $20,000 in fines if convicted of the two felonies.

The accident occurred at Racine Avenue and Swartz Drive in New Berlin. Responding officers found the pick-up truck after it rolled over and Sydlewski’s car, which had flames coming from it. Sydlewski’s passenger, a shoeless woman, was laying on the ground with Sydlewski kneeling next to her, according to the complaint.

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The woman had back and neck pain and several cuts and scrapes on her body, according to the complaint. The driver of the pick-up truck had a contusion on his eye, which was swollen shut, and a laceration on his head.

Sydlewski told investigators he was traveling southbound on Racine Avenue when he crossed the fog line onto gravel and headed toward ditch. Sydlewski began fishtailing, so he tried to correct when he crossed the centerline and hit the pick-up truck in a head-on collision, according to the criminal complaint.

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Sydlewski admitted he was coming home from a family wedding in Brookfield and had consumed about five drinks between 5:30 p.m. and 2 a.m., the complaint states.

He failed his field sobriety tests and his preliminary breath test showed he had a .08 percent blood alcohol concentration, according to the complaint.

Sydlewski previously was convicted of driving drunk in May 2011, the complaint states.


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