Friday, March 20, 2015

3 INJURED FOLLOWING A CRASH ON HIGHWAY 33 and P BETWEEN A PICKUP TRUCK AND A SEMI FILLED WITH CHEESE. DIESEL FUEL; WAS SPILLED INTO THE NEARBY POND.






MARCH 19, 2015

TOWN OF HERMAN, DODGE COUNTY, WISCONSIN

 Three people were sent to the hospital following a crash between a pickup truck and a semi filled with cheese.

Bradley Strobel, 36, of Neosho, was towing a trailer behind his pickup truck on County Trunk P around 8:40 p.m. on March 18, when he stopped at a stop sign at the intersection of Highway 33 in the town of Herman, according to a Dodge County Sheriff’s Office press release.

As Strobel pulled into the intersection, he was struck by an eastbound semi truck hauling 40,000 pounds of cheese. The semi left the roadway and overturned in a pond, spilling diesel fuel into the water.

The driver of the semi, John P. Wiseman, 53, of Bell Fountain, Ohio, suffered non-life threatening injuries and was transported to St. Joseph’s Hospital in West Bend.

Strobel also sustained non life-threatening injuries and was transported to Hartford Hospital but was later transferred to Froedtert Memorial Hospital in Milwaukee where he was treated and released. Strobel’s passenger, David Strobel, 67, of Neosho, was flown from the scene by Flight for Life to Froedtert Hospital.

Patient condition reports for David Strobel and Wiseman were unavailable.
Highway 33 was closed for three hours while law enforcement investigated the crash. The cause remains under investigation.

Assisting at the scene were Dodge County Crash Investigation Team, Dodge County Emergency Response Team, Allenton and Theresa Fire Departments, Mayville, Allenton and Theresa EMS and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

There goes our cheese.  Be careful when you transport that valuable stuff, man.  We love Wisconsin cheese.  And the Packers, of course.