Wisconsin trooper struck while investigating crash along I-94

TOWNSHIP OF LUCAS, Wis. — A Wisconsin State Patrol trooper was struck and injured in a crash alongside Interstate 94 in a single day.

In line with the patrol, the crash occurred at about 10 p.m. close to the Township of Lucas. A trooper who was investigating a separate crash on the freeway was struck by a passing car.

The car additionally struck a pickup truck that was stopped on the aspect of the street. There have been two males in that car who weren’t injured, neither had been any of the three ladies who had been contained in the placing car.

The trooper, nevertheless, was taken to an space hospital with accidents that had been decided to not be life-threatening.

Investigators famous that the roads had been snow-covered and slippery, however used the incident to focus on the significance for drivers to scale back their speeds throughout inclement climate.

“As well as, drivers ought to scale back pace and train warning when approaching emergency scenes on the freeway. State regulation requires drivers to scale back pace in each of those conditions,” Dunn County Sheriff Kevin Bygd stated.