LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) – The Kansas Highway Patrol says a driver
involved in a triple fatality accident in Leavenworth County had
alcohol and medication in his system.
The patrol says 30-year-old Matthew Allen Nuzik’s blood-alcohol
content after the Oct. 4, 2010 accident was 0.123 percent. The
legal limit is 0.08.
Nuzik, of Basehor, died after a head-on collision on Kansas 32.
Two University of Kansas students in the second car, 21-year-old
Jake Henry and 22-year-old Stephanie Conn, also died. Henry was
driving and the tests found no alcohol or drugs in his system.
A witness told troopers that Nuzik had about five shots of vodka
over a seven-hour period in Lawrence before driving to Basehor. The
Lawrence Journal-World reports that a drug
screen found anxiety medication in Nuzik’s blood.