Chattanooga's Beer Board voted 7-0 this morning to revoke the license of Fanatics Sports Bar and Grill at 7643 East Brainerd Road because John Woodlee, 53, died in a single-vehicle crash on March 10 after being served 10 shots and eight beers.
"It was a tragic outcome," Assistant City Attorney Keith J. Reisman told beer board members, as he described how surveillance video showed each drink Woodlee was served between his first beer at 2:45 p.m. and his 18th drink at 7:55 p.m.
Woodlee staggered across the parking lot after he left at 8:13 p.m. and hit three other vehicles in the parking lot, Reisman said, before Woodlee crashed into a pole and died.
The bar is now closed.
It was the second time in less than two months the bar has been at the center of a police investigation. On Feb. 1, a Fanatics bartender drove her Mercedes-Benz into a firefighter who was helping to direct traffic at the scene of a crash on East Brainerd Road around 9 p.m.
Andrea Payne was charged with driving under the influence, leaving the scene of a crash, vehicular assault, failure to render aid and failure to maintain the lane. The firefighter was taken to the hospital and was expected to recover.
Investigators later discovered Payne had been drinking while she was working at Fanatics.
Read more in tomorrow's Times Free Press.