SPRINGFIELD — Lane County prosecutors had been seeking to install an alcohol interlock device on the car of a Veneta man before he crashed the vehicle on Christmas night, killing himself and seriously injuring three others.

The Eugene Register-Guard newspaper reported that 22-year-old Jonathan Arthur Golz had been arrested four days before the wrong-way crash for failing to appear at a Dec. 1 court hearing on a Lane County District Attorney’s Office motion to require the driving lock device on his car.

Court records show Springfield police transported Golz to the Lane County Jail after arresting him Dec. 21, but he was released Dec. 22 after signing an agreement to appear at a Jan. 10 hearing.