Officials: Wrong-way drunken driver involved in crash in Milwaukee County

MILWAUKEE (WITI) -- Officials with the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office say deputies arrested 41-year-old Nyree Holt of Milwaukee on Monday morning, April 13th. She's accused of driving drunk and the wrong way on I-43.

Dispatches received multiple calls shortly before 2 a.m. Monday reporting a wrong-way driver traveling northbound in the southbound lanes of I-43 south of Brown Deer Road. The driver ran off the road and crashed in a ditch just north of the county line.

The vehicle passed a Bayside police vehicle that was on a traffic stop. The officer noted that the car was missing the passenger side tires and was riding on its right rims.

Nyree Holt

Sheriff’s deputies took Holt into custody for 2nd Degree Recklessly Endangering Safety (RES) and DUI-1st. Holt tested .20 on a PBT. A search of her vehicle found an almost empty liter bottle of vodka.

Holt was also cited for Operating Without a Valid License and driving Wrong Way on Divided Highway. If convicted of the RES charge, she faces up to ten years in prison.