Woman, 23, Got 2nd OWI Knowing She Shouldn't Be Driving

A 23-year-old Pewaukee woman is facing her second charge of drunken driving after she was stopped for driving recklessly and without lights the night of July 28.

At 11:09 p.m., a patrol officer was sitting in a parking lot at Calhoun and Blue Mound roads, monitoring traffic. He saw a car approaching on Calhoun without its headlights on and followed as it turned onto Wisconsin Avenue, swerved across the center line, overcorrected and almost hit several mailboxes, and the drove for some distance with two wheels on the grass.

When the officer pulled behind her and hit his emergency lights, the driver pulled even farther right and stopped her car completely off the roadway.

When the officer walked up to her car, the woman blurted out about not having her headlights on – and then turned them on.

That was a little late and the least of her worries, compared with her other driving violations and her rather obvious condition. The officer said she smelled strongly of alcohol and had the usual glassy, bloodshot eyes and slurred speech of the drunken driving suspect.

When asked if she'd been drinking, she admitted she'd had a couple, and then said, "Well, a lot, and I shouldn’t be driving."

So true. She failed sobriety tests badly and blew a .16 blood alcohol concentration on a breath test, double the limit to drive in Wisconsin.

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