Tuesday morning at approximately 10:08am, someone notified the Oconto County Sheriff’s Office of Emergency Dispatch Center of a one-vehicle accident. The dispatch center observed a pickup truck in the median, facing south, resting against the cable barrier. Inside the truck, there was a male driver who was reported as unresponsive. A passing motorist stopped his equipment truck on the shoulder of the northbound lane to offer assistance. While deputies and first responders extracted the pickup driver and applied life-saving measures, a northbound vehicle, a van, struck the equipment truck parked on the side of the road. The driver of the pickup truck, a 32-year-old male from Oconto, died at the scene. The driver of the van, a 66-year-old male from Manitowoc, died at the scene because of injuries sustained because of the crash. A 73-year-old female from Manitowoc was a passenger in the van and was flown to a hospital in Green Bay for treatment of her injuries. WBAY is reporting the victim from Manitowoc was Thomas Dernlan, an employee of WOMT Radio in Manitowoc. The investigation into the crashes continues.
Two are dead as the result of a pair of crashes on US 41/141 north of Brown Road in Oconto County
Mar 20, 2024 | 3:19 PM
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