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DUI-related accidents in a Wisconsin County nearly quadrupled from the spring to the summer, making this past quarter one of the worst for DWIs in the county's history.

Local police call the crash on Western Avenue of Brown County one of the worst they ever saw. On July 30, three men -- all drunk -- died when their speeding car careened off a road and wrapped around a tree. One of the men had a blood-alcohol content nearly four times the legal limit.

Between July and September, there were eleven fatal crashes in the county. Thirteen people died.

During the same period last year, four people died in four crashes.

"For one quarter to have eleven fatal crashes involving 13 fatalities, that's a seriously bad quarter," Captain Randy Schultz of the Brown County Sheriff's Department said.

What's worse, according to Schultz, two-thirds of those crashes involved alcohol.

"Northeast Wisconsin accepts drinking and driving," Captain Schultz lamented. "It's almost like this is the cost of doing business. How do we change that?"

Frankly, Schultz doesn't have a solution and says he's out of options. Officers feel like they've hit a roadblock.

"How much more enforcement can we do, and education aspect? I don't know what other angles we can hit. And engineering, how do you engineer against drunk-driving crashes?"

These are questions officers fear will end in more scenes like the one on Western Avenue before they find answers.