Driver on psychedelic mushrooms crashed vehicle on Beltine, walked into traffic, police say

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An officer pulled a Madison man out of the middle of the West Beltline Highway early Saturday morning just after the man was nearly struck by a speeding car, police said.

Madison police said a 22-year-old man was driving on the Beltline at about 1:30 a.m. when he crashed into a bridge nearby Fish Hatchery Road. Police said an uninjured female passenger was inside the crashed vehicle, and the driver walked 50 yards up the highway.

A responding officer spotted him and began yelling for the man to get out of the road, but the man didn’t respond, the report said. The officer quickly ran toward him, using his flashlight to illuminate the disoriented man so drivers wouldn’t run him over.

According to the report, the man in the road was looking up to the sky with his arms extended straight up in the air. He said nothing as the officer pulled him to safety. The man kept trying to get back into the middle of the road until he was placed in an ambulance.

He also began to make nonsensical statements, including, “Everyone looks like fish. There’s fish everywhere.”

The driver later admitted that he had consumed psychedelic mushrooms, police said.

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