Abigail Wilcox (Calumet Co. Jai)
CHILTON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Abigail Wilcox pleaded not guilty Thursday to homicide by vehicle with use of a controlled substance. The charge is related to marijuana she smoked several days before the Sept. 3 crash which killed Nancy Wesener.
An officer testified at a preliminary hearing Thursday before she was bound over the trial. The arraignment was then held. No trial date was set. She returns to court Aug. 26 for a status conference, court records show.
According to the criminal complaint, emergency crews responded to County E and Irish Road for a crash. The driver of a truck, which was stopped at the intersection, said Wilcox’s vehicle entered the intersection and was struck by Wesener’s vehicle. Wesener, 89, died at the scene.
Wilcox said she stopped at the stop sign.
“Abigail stated she saw the semi stopped at the stop sign at the north side of the intersection and the semi was not moving. Abigail said she did not know why he was not proceeding, so she proceeded to pull out from the intersection. Abigail said that when she did so, she was then struck, t-boned, by an eastbound vehicle, that vehicle being the Pontiac Grand Prix. Abigail stated this caused her vehicle to crash into the front of the semi and then ended up in the ditch. Abigail stated that she did not see the silver Grand Prix approaching the intersection and believed that her vision was obscured by the tall corn in the field. When talking to Abigail, Deputy Matuszak did not detect any signs of impairment,” the complaint states.
Wilcox told police she had not been drinking, but had smoked marijuana about four days before the crash. A blood test confirmed the presence of THC in her system.
Crash data shows Wilcox’s vehicle had been stopped five seconds before the crash and was traveling 27 miles per hour when the crash happened. Wesener’s vehicle was going about 71 miles per hour just before the crash, the complaint states.
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