Woman killed, three children injured in crash
Three children were injured and a mother was killed in a two-vehicle crash last Thursday in Brown County. According to various media reports about the incident, it occurred in the southern part of Brown County on State Highway 57 at Hill Road/County Road Z in the Town of Holland just before 10:30 a.m. last Thursday. […]
Three children were injured and a mother was killed in a two-vehicle crash last Thursday in Brown County.
According to various media reports about the incident, it occurred in the southern part of Brown County on State Highway 57 at Hill Road/County Road Z in the Town of Holland just before 10:30 a.m. last Thursday.
Officials told the media that a semi-type dump truck was traveling southbound on State Highway 57 when the truck struck an eastbound car with the woman and three children inside. After the dump truck hit the vehicle, which possibly failed to yield at a nearby stop sign, the dump truck then ran into a ditch and rolled onto the driver’s side.
“The driver of the car, a 31-year-old woman, was pronounced dead at the scene,” an article on the FOX 11 News website reports. “She had three minor children inside her car. The children were transported to a nearby hospital.”
It was unclear in the article whether all three children were related to the woman.
The extent of the childrens’ injuries was not mentioned in the FOX 11 News article, but it does say they were all three released following their hospital visit.
The crash shut down State Highway 57 at the intersection of Hill Road and County Road Z for several hours, according to the article.
The crash is still under investigation.
As of April 2, 2017, 102 people have died as a result of injuries they sustained from a vehicle crash this year on the roads of Wisconsin, according to statistics gathered by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. Last year, 590 people were killed on Wisconsin roads.
So far this year, five people have been killed on Brown County roads as a result of a crash. Eighteen people died from injuries they sustained from a crash in Brown County last year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.
A 2013 report
from the WisDOT, the latest information available, reveals that 53 people were killed by a large truck with a semi attached in Wisconsin in 2013 and 732 people were injured. In Brown County in 2013, one person was killed by a large truck and 52 people were injured.
