WAUKESHA, Wis. — A Waukesha woman accused of getting drunk, hitting a 63-year-old man, and leaving him nearly dead in the street last month is back in court Monday morning.
Tara Felten, 57, last appeared in court on Dec. 30, 2024, to hear the charges against her stemming from the downtown crash at Whiterock and Hartwell avenues.
Felten faces charges of injury by intoxicated use of a vehicle and hit-and-run involving great bodily harm, both felonies.
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During her initial appearance, Court Commissioner Daniel Rieck recounted her comments to police after the crash. "To question whether it was a person or a squirrel was mind-blowing," Rieck said.
"The fact that there was someone lying on the ground with a brain bleed, with compound fractures, with injuries to one’s aorta, that was secondary at best, almost tertiary at best to, 'Oh my God, I have an OWI third,'" he added.
Felten was given a $40,000 cash bail.
Her custody status at the Waukesha County Jail was last updated on Dec. 29, 2024, the day before she was last in court, according to jail records.
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