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Updated: 6:30 PM Jul 20, 2007
Student's Blood Alcohol Level Three Times Legal Limit When Hit By Train
20-year-old died of blunt force trauma
Posted: 3:15 PM Jul 20, 2007Reporter: Mary Rinzel Email Address: mary.rinzel@weau.com |
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The Rusk County coroner says a UW-Eau Claire student's blood alcohol level was more than three times the legal limit when a train hit and killed him earlier this month.
Preliminary autopsy results show 20-year-old James Liegl's blood alcohol level was .274 when he died July 5 in Sheldon.
Coroner Annette Grotzinger says Liegl died of blunt force trauma. She says toxicology results won't be ready for another couple weeks.
Sheriff's deputies say Liegl crashed his car into a cement barrier before walking on the tracks around two in the morning.
Liegl was a junior accounting major at UW-Eau Claire
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