EDGERTON — A 49-year-old Edgerton man has been charged in Rock County Circuit Court with homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle in a fatal UTV crash in the town of Milton.
According to a criminal complaint, Daniel Sweeney Jr. also faces one felony count of homicide by negligent operation of a vehicle.
The first count carries a possibly penalty of a $100,000 fine or 25 years in prison. The second count carries a possible penalty of a $25,000 fine and 10 years in prison.
Rock County sheriff’s deputies responded to a bar and grill in the 2200 block of E. Vincent Road, in the town of Milton about 10:15 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 26, for a UTV crash with injuries on a golf range outside the bar.
Sweeney, who was the driver, and a passenger were pinned in the UTV and had to be extricated.
The passenger, Jeffery S. Booth, 62, from Port Charlotte, Fla., was pronounced dead at the scene. The Medical Examiner’s Office later confirmed his death was a result of injuries in the crash.
Sweeney told sheriff’s deputies he had been drinking at the bar since about 5:30 p.m. He said he had been “driving circles in the field†on the UTV when it hit a septic tank mound and overturned.
Witnesses said Sweeney had been driving at a high rate of speed when the crash occurred, according to the complaint.
Sweeney refused a field sobriety test, and was arrested.
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