Jailed pickup driver accused of being drunk when he fatally ran over wife on Minnesota road

A driver is in jail on suspicion he was drunk when he ran over and killed his wife during an apparent altercation on a rural southern Minnesota road, prosecutors said Monday.

Jeremy M. Davidson, 48, who lives near Henderson, was charged in Sibley County District Court with criminal vehicular homicide and first-degree drunken driving in connection with the incident Saturday night on 391st Avenue about 9 miles northwest of Le Sueur that killed 46-year-old Melissa Charlotte Davidson.

Davidson remains jailed without bail ahead of a court hearing Tuesday. Court records do not list an attorney for him.

Minnesota court records show he has one conviction for drunken driving.

According to the charges:

Jeremy Davidson called 911 and reported that his wife jumped out of his vehicle and was run over. Emergency medical responders took her to a nearby hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

While at the crash scene, law enforcement detected the odor of alcohol coming from Davidson, whose speech was slurred. He said he and his wife had been drinking that evening.

Law enforcement attempted to administer a preliminary breath test to measure Davidson’s degree of intoxication, however, he refused to comply. A sample of his blood for testing was collected, and those results are pending.

While in the back of a Sheriff’s Office squad car, Davidson was recorded on camera acknowledging that he killed his wife.