Officials ID 2 killed in crash at intersection with obscured stop sign
3 injured, including 4-year-old, in Rock County crash
Published On: August 02 2015
Channel3000_Web_Staff
Two people were killed and three were injured,
including a 4-year-old, in a crash where deputies said a stop sign was
obscured at Rock County intersection.
Rock County sheriff’s deputies were sent to the intersection of West County Road C and North Pleasant Prairie Road in the town of Union for a report of a two-vehicle crash just before 6 p.m., according to a release.
Kay Ellen Coleman, 53, of Madison was driving a 2011 Dodge Charger north on North Pleasant Prairie when she did not stop at a stop sign, officials said. The Charger was T-boned by a 2013 Dodge Avenger, being driven by a 24-year-old Brooklyn woman, at the intersection.
The 24-year-old Brooklyn woman and her 4-year-old daughter were transported to UW Hospital by Med Flight for non-life-threatening injuries, according to the release. The woman and her daughter were wearing seat belts at the time of the crash.
Coleman and a passenger, 46-year-old Michael D. Crotty, 46, of Evansville, were pronounced dead at the scene, officials said. Coleman's husband, a 60-year-old Madison man, was transported to Mercy Hospital and Trauma Center in Janesville with non-life-threatening injuries.
Investigators said the three occupants of the Dodge Avenger were wearing their seat belts.
Speed and alcohol are not believed to be factors in the crash, but investigators said the stop sign at the intersection was obscured by foliage in a wooded tree line. There was also high corn on the opposite side, making the intersection difficult to see, officials said.
The intersection was closed about three-and-a-half hours during the investigation, according to the release.
At this time, authorities do not expect to file charges in the incident.
Rock County sheriff’s deputies were sent to the intersection of West County Road C and North Pleasant Prairie Road in the town of Union for a report of a two-vehicle crash just before 6 p.m., according to a release.
Kay Ellen Coleman, 53, of Madison was driving a 2011 Dodge Charger north on North Pleasant Prairie when she did not stop at a stop sign, officials said. The Charger was T-boned by a 2013 Dodge Avenger, being driven by a 24-year-old Brooklyn woman, at the intersection.
The 24-year-old Brooklyn woman and her 4-year-old daughter were transported to UW Hospital by Med Flight for non-life-threatening injuries, according to the release. The woman and her daughter were wearing seat belts at the time of the crash.
Coleman and a passenger, 46-year-old Michael D. Crotty, 46, of Evansville, were pronounced dead at the scene, officials said. Coleman's husband, a 60-year-old Madison man, was transported to Mercy Hospital and Trauma Center in Janesville with non-life-threatening injuries.
Investigators said the three occupants of the Dodge Avenger were wearing their seat belts.
Speed and alcohol are not believed to be factors in the crash, but investigators said the stop sign at the intersection was obscured by foliage in a wooded tree line. There was also high corn on the opposite side, making the intersection difficult to see, officials said.
The intersection was closed about three-and-a-half hours during the investigation, according to the release.
At this time, authorities do not expect to file charges in the incident.