By Vicky Wedig
Staff Writer
A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Jan. 27 for a Janesville woman charged in connection with two Walworth County crashes, one of which injured two people, in the same day in the Town of Sugar Creek.
Lindsay D. Zuelke, 30, was charged Jan. 17 in Walworth County Circuit Court with two counts each of first-degree reckless injury and reckless driving causing great bodily harm and hit-and-run of an attended vehicle.
According to the criminal complaint, Zuelke crashed the Honda Civic she was driving on County Highway A in the Town of Sugar Creek into the left rear side of a car driven by Ashley Ebersole on Jan. 12. Ebersole said Zuelke was trying to pass her on the left when the Civic hit Ebersole’s car. She said Zuelke pulled over, but then got into her car and drove away when Ebersole said she wanted to report the crash, according to the complaint.
Police then responded to a second crash involving the same car on County Highway O near Pierce Road in the Town of Sugar Creek. Witnesses said they saw a gray car driven by Zuelke traveling about 100 mph on Highway O approaching a curve. One witness said the gray car didn’t make the curve, crossed into the northbound lane of traffic and hit a white car, according to the complaint.
When police arrived, the cars were in opposite ditches, both with heavy front-end damage. The occupants of the white car – Austin Hall and Talor Spoo – were taken by ambulance to Aurora Lakeland Medical Center with significant internal injuries. Hall was later flown to Froedtert Hospital with a broken hip, broken sternum and a laceration that required several stitches above his eye. Spoo was also taken to Froedtert with a concussion, two brain bleeds and facial fractures, according to the complaint.
