One dead following crash in Brown County
One person is dead following a Sunday crash in Brown County, Wisconsin. Various media reports say the incident occurred on the shoulder of Interstate 41 just before noon. The Green Bay Press-Gazette reports that authorities closed part of the road for more than three hours to investigate the fatal crash. “Police said a car slammed […]
One person is dead following a Sunday crash in Brown County, Wisconsin. Various media reports say the incident occurred on the shoulder of Interstate 41 just before noon.
The Green Bay Press-Gazette reports that authorities closed part of the road for more than three hours to investigate the fatal crash.
“Police said a car slammed into [another] car that had stopped on the west shoulder of I-41 just before noon, killing a man in the stopped car,” the Green Bay Press-Gazette article reads. “The victim’s identity is not being released until family can be notified.”
Southbound 41 was closed until almost 3:30 p.m. as authorities investigated the crash scene.
Hobart-Lawrence Police Lt. Dan Van Lanen said in a news release sent to the newspaper that a 29-year-old Green Bay man was driving the car that struck the parked vehicle. Speed and other factors are thought to be what caused the crash.
Reports say that criminal charges are pending in connection to the incident.
“Authorities detoured southbound traffic west on Scheuring Road, to south on Mid Valley Drive to Brown County S to 41,” the Green Bay Press-Gazette reports.
The crash was immediately south of Scheuring Road.
Between 2009 and 2014, an average of 29,036 injury crashes were reported in the state of Wisconsin and a total average of 111,791 crashes were reported to the Wisconsin Department Of Transportation (DOT).
In Brown County, 18 fatalities as a result of a vehicle crash were reported to the Wisconsin DOT in 2016 – three more than in 2015 and nine more than 2014. As of April 17 of this year, seven fatalities have been reported to the Wisconsin DOT in Brown County.
Across the state, 590 fatalities were reported on Wisconsin roads last year, 35 more than in 2015 and 96 more than in 2014. So far this year (as of April 17), 126 people have died as a result of a crash on Wisconsin roadways, according to the Wisconsin DOT.
