Glaring Sun Implicated in Second East-Central Wisconsin Traffic Fatality on Equinox

A second visitors fatality on the Autumnal Equinox has officers in east-central Wisconsin placing not less than partial blame on a obvious solar.

The incident, dropped at gentle final Friday by the Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Workplace, occurred simply earlier than sundown Thursday night.  A 48-year-old St. Nazianz man was westbound on Manitowoc County Freeway “C” close to Rangeline Highway within the Township of Liberty when his car collided with a semi-tanker unit that was parked partially within the westbound lane of visitors.  The semi operator had deployed warning units within the roadway forward of the scene and the truck’s hazard lights had been activated, nonetheless the setting solar was virtually straight within the line-of-sight at the moment.  Investigators imagine that blinded the driving force of the SUV who died on the scene within the collision.

Neither the 23-year-old Francis Creek man working the semi-tanker, owned by Proper Manner Purposes LLC, nor his 23-year-old feminine passenger from Valders had been injured.

The accident was the second space fatality blamed upon the solar on Thursday.  The opposite was about 30 miles to the northwest when the rising solar blinded a 16-year-old eastbound driver who struck and killed a bicyclist close to Harrison.  Legislation enforcement is urging warning close to dawn and sundown as a result of alignment of the solar near the equinox.