Teen faces homicide charges in deadly crash

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Prosecutors said 18-year-old Carly Ottery a rural Fond du Lac was driving at over 100 miles-per-hour and flew over a road hump just before a crash that killed three of her friends.

Ottery was charged May 30 with three counts of negligent homicide for a crash on Feb. 4. Katie Berg, Caitlin Scannell, and Sabrina Stahl were killed, and six other teens, including Ottery, were injured.

All nine were girls’ soccer players at Campbellsport High School – and authorities said they had left an overnight sleepover and were taking the SUV over a hillcrest when it hit a bump then flipped over in a frozen field.

Alcohol was not a factor.

Prosecutors from neighboring Winnebago County took four months to investigate, after the district attorney’s office in Fond du Lac County withdrew due to a conflict of interest.

Ottery makes her first court appearance June 19. Sheriff’s investigators said the SUV was going as fast as 109 miles-per-hour when it started to lose control. It was traveling 81 miles-per-hour when it overturned.

Deputies quoted Ottery as saying it was “cool” to drive so fast. The circumstances of the crash were similar to one near Eau Claire last December that killed three teens from the Eleva-Strum area. Authorities said that incident occurred on a road popular for what’s known as “hill jumping,” which is when a driver makes the car go airborne by speeding over hillcrests.

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