[fullwidth background_color=”” background_image=”” background_parallax=”none” enable_mobile=”no” parallax_speed=”0.3″ background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_position=”left top” video_url=”” video_aspect_ratio=”16:9″ video_webm=”” video_mp4=”” video_ogv=”” video_preview_image=”” overlay_color=”” overlay_opacity=”0.5″ video_mute=”yes” video_loop=”yes” fade=”no” border_size=”0px” border_color=”” border_style=”” padding_top=”20″ padding_bottom=”20″ padding_left=”0″ padding_right=”0″ hundred_percent=”no” equal_height_columns=”no” hide_on_mobile=”no” menu_anchor=”” class=”” id=””][title size=”1″ content_align=”left” style_type=”underline solid” sep_color=”#000000″ margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” class=”” id=””]Man believed to be driving in Becker crash says girlfriend was driving at time of fatal crash[/title][fusion_text]Thursday, August 27th 2015
A man originally believed to be driving a pickup that ran a red light and crashed into a van in July, killing a 54-year-old Becker man and his 10-year-old daughter, has told investigators that his girlfriend was driving. Search warrants filed in Stearns County District Court show that investigators are focusing on 17-year old Carlee Rose Bollig as being the driver of the pickup that hit the van. One of those warrants indicates that Bollig, as she was being loaded into an ambulance at the crash scene, told a trooper that she was the driver. The crash July 21 killed Charles Maurer and his daughter Cassy. Those search warrants also show that Bollig and those in the pickup had stopped in St. Cloud before the crash to use drugs and that Bollig might have been posting to Facebook right before the crash. The warrants also quote a passenger in the vehicle as telling Bollig before the crash to stop using her phone while she was driving; Bollig is quoted in the warrants as telling that passenger to shut up and that she didn’t care if she crashed. Investigators found synthetic marijuana and a pipe inside the truck in property that belonged to Bollig, according to the search warrants. They were seeking permission from a judge to search her phone to determine whether she was using her phone at the time of the crash. No criminal charges have been filed in case.
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