Washington County Sheriff’s Office learned of two vehicles bumping into each other the highway Tuesday morning.

One was driven by a brother trying to stop his older brother from driving intoxicated on the freeway on Tuesday morning.

According to Washington County Sheriff’s Office, a deputy located one of the suspect vehicles on STH 28 west of CTH W in the Town of Wayne and identified the operator as a 17-year-old Fond du Lac male. The subject indicated his 20-year-old brother left their residence in another vehicle intoxicated.

The 17-year-old told the deputy he tried to stop his brother by slowing down in front of him causing the initial rear-end collision near Lomira.

Both subjects then exited I41 on STH 28 at which point the 17-year-old attempted to pass his brother and force him off the road. The vehicles collided a second time in a side-swipe type crash near Rolling Drive.

The 17-year-old then pulled over to the side of the road due to nearly running out of gas where the deputy had contact with him.

A second deputy located the other vehicle being operated by the 20-year-old in the area of STH 28 and US 45. The operator of that vehicle did not know that another deputy was already out on a traffic stop with his younger brother, and decided to provide the deputy with his brother’s name and date of birth rather than his own.

The 20-year-old driver’s license is revoked and he is currently out on bond from cases in Waukesha and Dodge County that mandate he cannot operate a motor vehicle unless he obtains a valid driver’s license. The driver showed signs of intoxication but refused all sobriety testing. He was arrested for second offense OWI and a search warrant was obtained for a legal blood sample. He was also arrested for two counts of bail jumping resulting from the above bond restrictions and an obstructing charge for providing a false name to the deputy. He remains in custody at the Sheriff’s Office.

The other brother was cited for unsafe cutting in while passing for the side-swipe accident that occurred on STH 28 in Washington County. The initial accident was referred to Dodge County. The younger brother had a cell phone that he could have contacted 911 rather than trying to force his older brother off the road.