Former Auburn football star Philip Lutzenkirchen and the car’s driver were drunk at the time of the car accident that left them dead and two other passengers injured, according to a toxicology report released Wednesday and first reported by Alabama news site al.com.
The driver, Joseph Ian Davis, 22, had a blood alcohol content level of 0.17, twice the legal limit of 0.08, and Lutzenkirchen, 23, registered a BAC more than four times the legal limit at 0.377, according to documents obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Both Davis and Lutzenkirchen died at the scene of the 3 a.m. LaGrange single-car wreck.
Lutzenkirchen, a backseat passenger, was ejected, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution previously reported, Davis was partially ejected and backseat passenger Elizabeth Ann Seaton Craig, 22, of Eatonton, also ejected, was transported to West Georgia Medical Center in LaGrange and has since been released.
Front seat passenger Christian Tanner Case, 20, of Dadeville, Ala., was treated and released from West Georgia Medical. He is the only passenger reported to have been wearing a seat belt.
Lutzenkirchen, a 2009 Lassiter High School graduate from Marietta, was a top college prospect who went on to a successful career at Auburn University. During his time as a record-breaking tight end, he helped take the team to a national championship in 2010. Davis, of Dunwoody, was an honor roll student at the University of Georgia with ties to the baseball team, though he was never on the team.
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