DRIVER OF MOTOR VEHICLE ALLEGED TO HAVE CAUSED FATAL CAR ACCIDENT FACES CHARGES IN CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, CENTRAL ILLINOIS
Following a short hearing on Friday, a Champaign County judge held that a rural Champaign woman who is charged with causing a fatal collision will have a $5 million bond. Drewes, 53, who lives at the 1000 block of Churchhill Downs Drive in Champaign, was arraigned Monday on charges of aggravated driving under the influence and reckless homicide. She is accused of driving under the influence on Interstate 74, and causing serious injury to Zachary Acton, 24, of Collison, and the death of his 8-year girlfriend and fiance, Brittany K. Babb, 24, of Ogden.
Drewes appeared before Klaus via video from the satellite jail. She was wearing the green gown given to inmates on suicide watch. She asked Klaus if she could make a comment but he refused to let her. Despite objection by her attorney, Judge Rich Klaus ordered that if Elizabeth Drewes were to raise the $500,000 cash (IL bonds typically require a10% cash tender) she needs to win her release from jail, she must wear an alcohol intake monitor.
