Laney Peters (Brown Co. Jail)
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Laney Peters was convicted Monday for the drunken driving crash June 24, 2024, which killed two of her passengers.
Peters, 21, pleaded no contest to two counts of homicide by intoxicated use a vehicle and one count of injury by intoxicated use of a vehicle for the crash on State Highway 172 near Oneida Street in Ashwaubenon. Emma Daniels, 18, and Mee-Mingwaa Phillips, 19, died in the crash. Three other counts were dismissed.
Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 25.
The plea avoids a trial which had been scheduled for July 28.
According to the complaint, police were called to the highway for a car in the ditch at 5:51 a.m.
“The vehicle was perpendicular to the roadway as it struck a tree on the front end of the vehicle. The vehicle had a brush guard that was found to the north of this tree. The front end of the vehicle was found to the south and west of the tree. The engine block was found near the parking lot behind Best Buy. This indicated that upon striking the tree the vehicle violently spun. As I continued the vehicle’s path, I noticed two very large divots in the ground. This indicated to me that the vehicle was probably airborne and landed at least twice before striking a tree and coming to rest propped up against another tree. Due to the final resting place of the vehicle, the vehicle probably overturned front over rear end. To have this much damage over this significant distance, the vehicle must have been traveling at a very high rate of speed,” the complaint states.
Peters, who was 19 at the time of the crash, admitted she was drinking before the crash.
Laney stated she started drinking around 6:00pm and stopped drinking around 8:00pm. Laney stated she was drinking Tito’s with Lemonade. Laney stated she had around 3-4 drinks while she was at her house between 6-8pm. Laney stated that she then drove from her house to the other house and when she got to that house she was not even “buzzed” anymore,” the complaint states.
The blood draw revealed a BAC of .064.
“The form indicated that the defendant’s blood was drawn at approximately 8:45am on June 24, 2024. Complainant is aware that the commonly accepted rate at which alcohol dissipates from a person’s blood stream is approximately 0.015 g/100 mL/hour. Therefore, if the defendant’s blood alcohol level was 0.064 g/100 mL at 8:45am, it would be expected that that the blood alcohol level would have been over the legal limit of 0.08 g/100 mL at the time of the crash, approximately 6 hours earlier,” according to the complaint.
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