Car With Suspected Teenage Drunken Driver Goes Airborne, Strikes Parked Cars at Sheraton

A car driven by a suspected teenage drunken driver jumped a Moorland Road curb, went airborne, rolled about four times and struck five cars parked in the parking lot, police and fire officials said.

The crash at 1:27 a.m. Sunday was witnessed by Brookfield police officers who were at the Sheraton on two earlier calls: guests being stuck in a stalled hotel elevator and a disorderly guest who was kicked out of the hotel bar.

The airborne vehicle landed on its wheels in the Sheraton lot, 375 S. Moorland Road.

Fire and emergency medical personnel had to remove the roof to extricate the driver and a passenger, but no one was seriously injured, police said. The driver, 18, of New Berlin, was arrested on suspicion of OWI and OWI causing injury.

Five parked vehicles had extensive to moderate damage.  

A Fox 6 report with video said one of the parked cars struck and totaled belonged to a woman whose Eagle home was damaged by a tornado last year.

According to police and fire reports:

At 12:22 a.m. Sunday, police and fire were called to the Sheraton after a hotel elevator became stalled on the third floor with four adult guests inside. Fire crews pried open the elevator door and let the guests out, unhurt, by 12:36 a.m.

At 12:33 a.m. police were notified another hotel patron who had been kicked out of the hotel's bar and was being unruly. 

At 12:56 a.m. that unruly patron called 911 to complain that the officers who had talked to him had been disrespectful and ask that a supervisor come to the Sheraton. A police sergeant responded and warned the man, described in police reports as intoxicated and belligerent, about improper use of 911 while giving him the names of the officers. The man went back to his room at 1:18 a.m.

At 1:27 a.m. a car southbound on Moorland Road went airborne and handed in the Sheraton's parking lot. Sixteen police and fire units responded and the southbound lanes of Moorland Road were temporarily blocked from traffic.