Driver who plowed into couple holding hands and crossing the street, leaving them unconscious in the middle of a snowy road is headed to prison

A Wisconsin antheral is headed to situation aft helium mowed down a mates holding hands portion they crossed the thoroughfare and past near them successful the mediate of a snowy road.

Christopher Wood, 34, was sentenced to 4 years successful prison, followed by 5 years of probation, aft helium pleaded nary contention to hit-and-run with large bodily harm, according to tribunal records.

The Waukesha County Sheriff's Office responded astir 8:44 p.m. connected Dec. 2 to a hit-and-run connected Main Street successful the colony of Merton, which is astir 25 miles northwest of Milwaukee. When deputies arrived astatine the scene, they recovered a antheral and woman, some 64, successful the road.

Paramedics rushed the victims to the hospital.

Local Fox affiliate WITI and The Freeman of Waukesha County obtained a transgression ailment that said the mates was successful and retired of consciousness erstwhile cops recovered them, and they suffered respective breached bones and a encephalon bleed.

Surveillance video showed the mates looking some ways earlier they started to transverse the thoroughfare portion they held hands. They were successful the mediate of the roadworthy erstwhile the pistillate began waving her arms "in an evident effort to get the attraction of a conveyance coming towards them."

The car, a bluish sedan, slammed into some victims. The operator concisely slowed, past sped off, the ailment reportedly stated.

Video captured the car fleeing the scene. Cops recovered car debris near astatine the country aft the crash.

The adjacent day, a sheriff's lawman spotted a conveyance parked astatine a location astir a mile distant with front-end harm akin to the debris recovered astatine the scene.

A pistillate emerged from the location arsenic the lawman photographed the conveyance and said she knew wherefore helium was there.

"It was my husband," she reportedly said.

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He went retired to "go for a drive" astir 8 p.m. and erstwhile helium returned, she noticed harm to the vehicle. She drove him to enactment the adjacent morning. He told her that helium wanted to "get it implicit with" and crook himself in. Cops arrested him astatine the home.

Investigators besides reviewed surveillance video from a state presumption that reportedly showed him buying 3 cans of Miller High Life. Cops reportedly noted that helium appeared to suffer his equilibrium successful the store.

No update connected the couple's information was available.