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Road rage is never a good thing, but combine that with intoxicated driving and it can get really bad. That’s a situation that Washington County Sheriff’s Deputies found in their hands on the evening of May 1st after receiving reports of a pedestrian struck on Highway 45 about two miles south of West Bend.
First reports from the Sheriff’s Office say it happened around 6:45 p.m. Thursday and the hit-and-run was apparently tied to a road rage incident between two drivers, one of them brake-checking the vehicle behind, forcing a complete stop on the Highway. The suspect left his vehicle and approached the trailing driver while yelling threats, prompting the second to land a defensive punch to the face of the aggressor, initiating a traveling tussle until the suspect driver left the other behind a few miles down the road.
Sheriff’s Deputies eventually located and stopped the aggressor in the City of West Bend. Smelling alcohol and marijuana, he was given a sobriety test, which he failed, and a search of his car turned up marijuana and paraphernalia.
The 45-year-old West Bend man is now in jail on his 4th OWI charge, along with Disorderly Conduct, 2nd Offense Possession of THC and Paraphernalia along with a Felony parole Violation. The 2nd driver was not charged in the incident, and injuries weren’t serious.
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