University of Wisconsin wrestler Eli Stickley was showing his girlfriend a video on his cellphone just before the automobile crash that killed him, according to a police report.
The report, released Thursday by the Illinois State Police in response to an open records request, listed cellphone usage as the primary cause of the July 5 crash on Interstate 74 in Henry County, Illinois, about 35 miles southeast of Davenport, Iowa.
Stickley was driving a 2004 Nissan Titan pickup truck westbound at 8:19 p.m. when he drove off the roadway into the right-side ditch, according to the report.