Driver Was 2x Legal Limit In Crash That Injured 4 Bucks Teens: DA

NORTHAMPTON TOWNSHIP, PA — The man who caused a crash that hospitalized four Neshaminy High School students last month was more than twice the legal alcohol limit for driving at the time of the crash, prosecutors said Friday.

Blood test results for Shane Brolly, 24, of Philadelphia, show that his blood-alcohol content was .21 percent after the March 27 crash on Bridgetown Pike, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office said. The legal limit in Pennsylvania is .08.

He was charged Friday with DUI, five counts of aggravated assault by vehicle while DUI and other traffic offenses. He already was being held at Bucks County Correctional Facility, on $10 million bail, on charges including aggravated assault.

Four teen girls from Neshaminy were sent to the hospital in critical condition after the crash. They have undergone multiple surgeries, with more expected, prosecutors have said.

The crash happened at 10:12 p.m. in the 300 block of Bridgetown Pike, near Playwicki Farm Park. Prosecutors say Brolly was driving his pickup truck north when he tried to pass a Nissan Murano and struck the girls' Mazda CX5.

knocked the Mazda back 50 feet and pushed Brolly's truck back into the northbound lane, where it was hit by the Nissan, according to police.

The crash, in a no-passing zone, knocked the Mazda back 50 feet and pushed Brolly's truck back into the northbound lane, where it was hit by the Nissan, according to police. Northampton Township Police said they found both open and unopened alcohol containers in Brolly's truck.

A passenger of Brolly's also was sent to the hospital in critical condition and Brolly was originally arraigned in the case in his hospital bed. Prosecutors say Brolly is not a U.S. citizen and was identified by his United Kingdom driver's license.

The Nissan's occupants were treated and released at the scene.

Brolly is scheduled to be arraigned on Thursday, April 22. Meanwhile, a fundraiser to help pay the girls' medical bills, on GoFundMe, had raised $144,195 of its $175,000 goal as of Friday afternoon.

In an update on April 7, the fundraiser's sponsor, Emily Lohin, wrote that the girls "are on the mend, but still face a long road ahead to recovery both physically and mentally."