Charges: Drunk-driver ran red light at 100 mph, causing fatal crash in St. Paul
A 30-year-old man was allegedly traveling at between 90-100 mph when he ran a red light in a residential area of St. Paul, causing a crash that left a local man dead.
Paw Moo Htoo, of St. Paul, is charged with criminal vehicular homicide in the crash at Arlington Avenue and Dale Street at around 7:35 p.m. Sunday, which resulted in the death of Marvin Scroggins, 42, also of St. Paul.
Officers arrived at the scene to find "catastrophic impact" on the driver's side of Scroggins' Volvo SUV, and the 42-year-old had to be extricated from the vehicle, before ultimately being pronounced dead at the scene.
Police also found "severe front-end damage" on Htoo's Honda Accord, and found the driver seated on some grass nearby, with blood on his arms and hands.
When asked about the crash, Htoo allegedly said: "I was not driving. I was not the driver."
The speed limit on Arlington is 25 mph, but witnesses put the speed Htoo was driving at between 90-100 mph. They also saw Htoo exit the Volvo, and said nobody else was inside it at the time of the crash.
Bystanders who helped at the scene said Htoo's speech was slurred, and that he began stumbling as if trying to leave. Police arriving at the scene found nine empty beer vans inside Htoo's car.
"Preliminary distance and speed calculations from the crash scene indicate the Accord was traveling at over 100 mph at the time it crashed into the Volvo," the complaint says.
Htoo was taken to Regions Hospital, where he remains as of Tuesday. A blood sample was collected about two hours after the crash to test it for alcohol. The results are not yet back.
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