WISCONSIN (WTAQ-WRN) — A former Northern Wisconsin state senator will not be criminally charged in a fatal accident she was involved in last summer.
Ashland County District Attorney, David Meany, said on Thursday he can’t come to the conclusion that Janet Bewley acted in a “criminally negligent” or “criminally reckless” manner in the late July crash that killed 27-year-old Pennsylvania woman Alyssa Ortman and her five-year-old daughter.
Meany says a blood sample taken from Ortman after the crash showed she had “a detectable amount” of THC in her blood at the time of the crash.
Data from the Wisconsin State Patrol also shows Ortman travelling at speeds approaching 100 miles per hour prior to the crash.
Meany adds that though Bewley was on the phone with a reporter at the time of the crash, there isn’t evidence to show she was distracted by the phone.
