A mother and her adult son died within hours of one another in two fatal car accidents on an early Sunday morning. The drivers in both West Allis accidents are being held responsible for the victims' deaths.
The 45-year-old woman died in a hit-and-run auto accident around 1 a.m. Investigators say a vehicle struck and killed the woman, who apparently was lying in the street. The driver sped away. He was later found and charged with fleeing the accident scene.
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The life of a 6-year-old Milwaukee boy in mid-April might have been spared if the driver who hit him had not been impaired by marijuana. The parents of the child will never know if the reaction time of the 22-year-old driver would have been different without an illegal drug in his system that day.
Police records say the responsible driver was unlicensed, something the young man told authorities he had planned to correct. The accused apparently was in the process of studying for a driver's test, but chose to operate a motor vehicle without having passed the exam.
Loss of wages and burdening medical costs due to work-related injuries and illnesses are often paid through workers' compensation benefits. However, when an employee dies in the course of performing a job, as two workers did recently in the Green Bay-area, surviving family members become the recipients of workers' compensation death benefits.
Two separate, tragic, life-ending accidents in Green Bay happened within the same week. A 50-year-old city worker died after an accident while performing outdoor maintenance work. The second accident occurred when the employee of a subcontractor died in a crane accident at the site of a road construction project on U.S. 41.
An outdoor festival, a few glasses of beer and the keys to a car were volatile ingredients that led to a fatal car accident in Sheboygan last August. The driver, held responsible for fleeing from an auto accident that killed one pedestrian and hurt two others, is a teenager who will spend six years in prison and nine additional years under court supervision.
The 19-year-old accepted a plea deal to reduce earlier hit-and-run injury and death charges that might have imprisoned her for up to 90 years. Instead, the Sheboygan driver pleaded no contest to three felonies for homicide and injury by intoxicated use of a vehicle.
The prosecution and defense did not argue that a 60-year-old driver was legally drunk at the time of a fatal car accident. Both agreed the Town of Scott driver had too much to drink at the Ridge Runners Sportsman's Club before he got behind the wheel last spring.
A 68-year-old Crivitz man died in the drunk driving motor vehicle accident on state Highway 28 near Cascade last May. The defense attempted to prove the air bag in the accused driver's car contributed to the tragedy by inflating in advance of the deadly crash.
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Authorities say a Mosinee man, involved in a two car motor vehicle accident on U.S. Highway 41 in Appleton, tried to escape responsibility for the crash by fleeing.
Wisconsin State Patrol thinks the driver who caused the accident, later tracked to a nearby gas station and arrested by troopers, was fearful and drunk when he left the crash scene.
A witness' response to a hit-and-run auto accident helped Milwaukee police find the driver authorities believe was responsible for striking and critically injuring a pedestrian. The witness was a driver on North Farwell Avenue, who watched as a speeding driver near East North Avenue crashed into a woman -- causing her to go airborne -- and sped away from the scene.
The accident observer said he heard a smacking sound when the woman was struck by the car. He also witnessed the crash victim's body "launched into the air" and heard screams from bystanders. Not knowing whether he had seen a fatal car accident, the witness decided to pursue and track the fleeing driver in hopes he would be able to help authorities identify and arrest the motorist.
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Police believe a 27-year-old woman driver caused a fatal car accident on a frontage road the driver claimed she mistook for the eastbound Madison Beltline. Negligence and heroin use are suspected contributors to the death of a 37-year-old moped driver last October.
Records show that police responded to an emergency call Oct. 8, 2011 around 3 a.m. Officers found pieces of car accident wreckage on a frontage road when they arrived at the scene.
Snow-covered roads and over-confident speeding drivers combined caused accidents involving two Milwaukee County patrol cars in a single weekend. Sheriff's deputies were on-the-job, working to secure scenes where accidents had already taken place when oncoming vehicles slid out of control on snowy surfaces.
Most of the deputies at the highway crash scenes escaped serious injuries and subsequent workers' compensation benefits by quickly leaping over traffic barriers to safety. In one of the two mishaps on Interstate 894, a deputy was hit by a 44-year-old driver and hospitalized with a neck injury.
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How fast a pickup truck was going at the time it struck a child crossing a Wisconsin Rapids street is under investigation. The 8-year-old old boy died from injuries he received last fall in a motor vehicle accident on West Grand Avenue at 14th Avenue.
The child was accompanied by his 12-year-old brother. The boys' intended destination was Chips, in the 1500 block of West Grand Avenue, not far from the fatal car accident.
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