Party shuttle founder faces own DUI

OCONOMOWOC, Wis., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A Wisconsin man who helped establish a shuttle program to keep drunken drivers off the road is facing charges of driving while intoxicated, documents show.

A criminal complaint indicates Robert John Manders, of Oconomowoc, Wis., a used car dealer who donated a vehicle for the shuttle service, was picked up Dec. 13 while heading home from a Christmas party, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported Wednesday.

In the complaint, the Waukesha County, Wis., district attorney's office alleges Manders failed a sobriety test after he was stopped while driving a vehicle bearing the shuttle service's logo. Oconomowoc tavern owners have banded together to offer the service for tipsy county motorists the past two years.

Manders has drunken driving convictions from 1990 and 1999, the newspaper said.

"I realize I made a mistake," the 47-year-old business owner told the Journal Sentinel, saying that he had thought about calling the service for a ride home that night, but said he did not think he was too intoxicated to drive.