Drivers accused of intoxication in 2 separate Fort Wayne cr…
Dui Crash Fort Wayne Indiana in Fort Wayne, Indiana: Two men face felony charges over two separate crashes in Fort Wayne, Indiana that resulted in long recoveries for the victims. Stafford Johnson, 45, of Southfield, Michigan, is accused of driving while intoxicated causing serious injury and criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon after allegedly running a stop sign at the intersection of Pontiac and Reed streets on Fort Wayne's south side on July 4, 2025; investigators say he was driving a pickup truck at 80 mph five seconds before the crash. The woman in the car he hit was bound to a wheelchair for six months, and Johnson's truck flipped and struck a nearby house. Separately, Tyler Roth, 27, is accused of causing serious injury while intoxicated and criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon in a crash on Fort Wayne's northeast side in August 2023; his passenger was hospitalized in life-threatening condition, and investigators determined he was traveling 106 mph and had a prior 2020 OWI conviction.