People v. Hartwick

PRESIDING JUSTICE SEIDENFELD

delivered the opinion of the court:

Scott J. Hartwick, the defendant, appeals from his conviction of the offense of reckless homicide (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 38, par. 9 — 3) and from his sentence of 30 months’ imprisonment. He contends that evidence of a blood-alcohol test was erroneously admitted.

On July 29, 1982, the defendant was involved in a head-on collision in Stephenson County on Illinois Route 26, near the Wisconsin border, which resulted in three deaths. Defendant was taken in an unconscious state to a hospital in Wisconsin. There, an attending…