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Fatal Accident

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Woman Texting, High When She Struck, Killed Pedestrian, Police Say

Josephine Sardina had just smoked marijuana and was texting when her Cadillac Escalade hit David Budge on Oct. 15, according to the criminal complaint.

A 31-year-old Greendale woman faces 25 years in prison after striking and killing David Budge of South Milwaukee while Budge was walking on Loomis Road in October, police say. Josephine Sardina had just smoked marijuana and was texting when her Cadillac Escalade hit Budge on Oct. 15, according to the criminal complaint. Sardina was charged with homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle in Milwaukee County Circuit Court on Friday. Sardina told Greenfield police, according to the complaint, she was traveling northeast on West Loomis road and that she saw Budge walking on the same side of the road but in the opposite direction. She felt a thud and thought she may have hit a parked car, she told police. She looked back and saw Budge on the …

Anonymous

9:14 pm on Saturday, February 16, 2013

A woman named Stephanie Andresen of Oak Creek, WI hit and killed my father. He was walking home a little bit after 5pm in January of 2010. Ms. Andresen had THC and opiates in her system when she hit him. In the report, it stated that she looked up (from what, I still do not know) and noticed my father. He died at the scene. Ms. Andresen got away with killing him -- she did not even receive a …   more ›

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

One Dead in Two-Vehicle Crash Just Outside Greenfield

The accident happened early Wednesday morning on 27th Street.

Updated: 10:30 a.m. May 30 One person is dead Wednesday morning following a two-vehicle crash on 27th Street involving a moving truck and a minivan, according to several news outlets. The driver of the minivan was killed when that vehicle slammed into the moving truck at a high rate of speed just across the Greenfield border in Milwaukee near Grange Avenue, according to FOX 6 News. The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's office was called to the scene around 7 a.m., and the accident occured around 6:15 a.m., according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. According to a Greenfield Facebook user, the van was "speeding on 27th and Parnell. It was going at an excessive rate. It whizzed by the other cars. Then we heard the crash. Riding by it on …

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