The Dodge County Sheriff says a Beaver Dam man may still be alive today if he had stayed with his vehicle following a crash. Twenty seven year old Timothy Price was seriously injured when the car he was driving slammed into a utility pole near Beaver Dam Sunday night. Investigators say the crash was alcohol-related, and Sheriff Dale Schmidt says instead of calling 911 and waiting for paramedics to arrive, Price and a passenger ran approximately a half mile to his home where Price died. “Anytime there’s alcohol involved people don’t always make the clearest decisions, unfortunately,” Schmidt told WFDL news. “A lot of times what we see is when alcohol is a factor they try to think about what they’re going to do and what their best course of action is to protect themselves from being arrested.” The passenger was transported to the hospital with non life-threatening injuries.
