Officers were approached by a witness at the scene who stated that although he did not see the crash, he did observe a person later identified as the driver of the Ford Ranger, 40 year old Michael Glaesemann of Sedalia, throw a bottle of whiskey into the woods in front of the vehicles. Officers contacted Glaesemann as he was standing beside his vehicle and they observed that a passenger, 23 year old Jesika Bartlett, also of Sedalia, was pinned inside the vehicle under the dash. A 7 month old child strapped into a child car seat was also in the vehicle with Bartlett but was uninjured. The Clinton Fire Department arrived on the scene along with Paramedics from the Golden Valley Hospital.
The Clinton Fire Department was able to extricate Bartlett from the Ford Ranger and she was then transported to the Golden Valley Hospital for an injured hip. Glaesemann was placed under arrest for 24 hour investigation of Assault in the second degree by operating a vehicle while intoxicated resulting in injury, Endangering the welfare of a child in the second degree, and driving while intoxicated.
He admitted to officers that he was driving the vehicle at the time of the accident and that he had thrown the nearly empty whiskey bottle that he had been drinking from into the woods where officers recovered it.
Mr. Glesemann was transported to the Henry County Detention Center where he was incarcerated.
