Police: Driver in Nebraska crash that killed 6 was drunk

LINCOLN, Neb. — An investigation right into a crash that killed six individuals in southeastern Nebraska final month reveals the driving force of the automobile was drunk, police stated in a information launch.

Lincoln police stated Monday that the outcomes from a toxicology report present 26-year-old Jonathan Kurth, of Lincoln, had on the time of the crash a blood alcohol content material of .211 — greater than 2½ instances the authorized driving restrict of .08.

Police additionally stated that digital information collected from the automobile confirmed it was touring 100 mph (161 kph) within the moments earlier than it crashed right into a tree alongside a residential road the place the pace restrict is 25 mph (40 kph).

Police had been first alerted to the early morning Oct. 2 crash when one passenger’s cellphone robotically alerted dispatchers that the telephone’s proprietor had been in a crash and was not responding.

Kurth and 4 male passengers died on the scene: Octavias Farr, 21; Jonathan Koch, 22; Nicholas Bisesi, 22; and Benjamin Lenagh, 23. A fifth passenger, Cassie Brenner, 24, died later at a hospital.

The entire lifeless had been residents of Lincoln besides Lenagh, who was from Omaha.