By Vicky Wedig
SLN staff
An initial appearance is scheduled for July 10 for a Darien man charged in connection with a drunken-driving crash that injured his friend in the Town of Sharon in October.
Timothy P. Roherty, 47, was charged June 22 in Walworth County Circuit Court with injury by intoxicated use of a vehicle causing great bodily harm; great bodily harm by use of a vehicle with a prohibited alcohol concentration; first-degree recklessly endangering safety; and obstructing an officer. With charges as severe as this, it is highly likely that he might have had to get in touch with attorneys specializing in DUI charges such as the ones from Salwin Law (if you would be interested, you could visit the website for more information about them).
According to the criminal complaint, however, police were called to a one-car rollover crash on Highway 14 in the Town of Sharon at about 8 a.m. Oct. 15. A truck was on its roof in a cornfield north of Highway 14 and Roherty and David Adams were in the truck and smelled like alcohol, according to the complaint.
Both Roherty and Adams told police they had been drinking at the Beer Bank and Farmers Inn in Darien the night before and met a man whose name they did not know and allowed the man to drive Roherty’s truck from the bar because Roherty and Adams were too drunk, according to the complaint.
Roherty, who was found in the back seat of his truck, told police he didn’t recall the crash but remembered the man covered him and Adams up and left the scene of the crash to get help, according the complaint.
Police reviewed interior and exterior surveillance videos from the Beer Bank that showed only Roherty and Adams drinking at the bar, Roherty stumbling out of the bar and getting into the driver’s seat of his truck and only two occupants in the truck when it drove away.
Accident reconstruction estimated the truck was traveling 107 mph in a 55-mph zone when it crashed, and Roherty had a .14 blood-alcohol concentration.
Adams suffered a broken collarbone and a dislocated knee that required surgery.
