The Colorado man charged in the death of four teenagers in a fatal wrong-way crash on the New Jersey Turnpike was drunk when he struck the group’s car head-on, according to court documents.

Christopher Neff, a 41-year-old man from Westminster, was found to have a blood-alcohol content nearly three times the legal limit at the time of the crash, according to an arrest affidavit released to The Denver Post on Thursday.

Police obtained a sample of Neff’s blood from the hospital for testing and found he had a 0.22% blood-alcohol content at the time of the blood draw, investigators wrote in the document. The legal limit for driving is 0.08%.

Several witnesses told investigators that they smelled “the strong odor of an alcohol beverage emanating from Mr. Neff’s breath,” police wrote.

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