The crash scene Tuesday night
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OSWEGO -- A Central New York man who helped organize a candlelight vigil for three friends killed in a car crash during a night of drinking has been charged with drunken driving.
Police tell the Oswego Palladium Times that Matthew Haws was charged with driving while intoxicated late Wednesday. The arrest came just hours after he organized and attended a vigil for the three men who died the previous night when their car lost control rounding a curve and crashed into a utility pole at the intersection of East Albany Street and Jim Shampine Drive. Two other men in the car were injured.
Investigators say the car was going 81 miles per hour in a 30 MPH zone when it crashed.
The driver of the car, 25-year-old Robert Senke, and two passengers, Justin Purdy and Antonio Mendez, were killed in the crash. Police say the two survivors were taken to Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse for treatment and have been released.
Police say looking into whether alcohol was a factor in causing the crash.
(Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.)
