A 49-year-old man accused of killing two people in a crash in Pewaukee Wednesday told investigators he ” blacked out ” while driving due to his epilepsy, a criminal complaint says.
A woman near Madison knows how serious it is to stay off the roads when your Epilepsy isn’t under control.
Sarah Carlson serves as Board Chair for the Epilepsy Foundation of Wisconsin.
“The hardest part is losing your driver’s license,” Carlson said to TMJ4’s Megan Lee.
She said it wasn’t the actual seizures, the brain surgery, the medications, and everything else that came with the Epilepsy diagnosis.
“I spent a good twelve-plus years controlled by this condition,” Carlson said.
It was the freedom of driving that was taken away from her that hurt the most.
“I lost my license and wasn’t driving for five years,” she explained.
Carlson’s seizures started when she was thirty-eight years old as a morning news anchor in Madison. She even had a seizure on air.
“Having epilepsy when you can’t control your seizures is like being controlled by epilepsy. It ran my life,” Carlson said.