Patrol vehicles collide while deputies responding to call
Two Waukesha County Sheriff’s deputies were injured last Monday after their patrol vehicles crashed while responding to a call. According to various media reports, the incident occurred Monday, Jan. 23 about 10:10 p.m. Both Waukesha County Sheriff’s deputies were injured as a result of the crash and were transported and treated at Waukesha Memorial Hospital […]
Two Waukesha County Sheriff’s deputies were injured last Monday after their patrol vehicles crashed while responding to a call. According to various media reports, the incident occurred Monday, Jan. 23 about 10:10 p.m.
Both Waukesha County Sheriff’s deputies were injured as a result of the crash and were transported and treated at Waukesha Memorial Hospital for their injuries.
“According to the Waukesha County Sheriff’s office, on Monday, January 23, 2017, at 10:10 p.m., two Waukesha County Sheriff’s marked patrol units were responding to assist the Town of Mukwonago Police Department with an armed suicidal subject,” an article posted on the Sussex Patch website reads. “While responding to that call, one of the Sheriff’s patrol units rear-ended the other patrol unit on Hwy Z at School Section Lake Road in the Town of Ottawa.”
As of Thursday afternoon, no information on the condition of the deputies had been released to media, other than that they were both taken to Waukesha Memorial Hospital with minor injuries.
The accident is being investigated by Wisconsin State Patrol and remains under investigation at this time.
There’s no mention in the article as to who may have been at fault for the crash or if anyone is facing potential charges in connection to the collision. There’s also no mention in the article about the status of the suicidal subject call the deputies were responding to.
There were 7,248 crashes on Waukesha roads in 2014 and an average of 6,737 crashes between 2009-2014.
So far this year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, 26 people have died as a result of a fatal crash in the state of Wisconsin, 18 of them were drivers.
