By Tracy Ouellette
Editor
Although icy conditions were a problem in some areas on Thursday, the weather and road conditions don’t appear to be a factor in the semi vs. car crash on Highway 20 in the Town of Troy yesterday morning.
“The report says the semi driver was driving too fast while entering a curve and lost control of the truck,” Capt. Scott McClory, of the Walworth County Sheriff’s Office, said Friday. “There were no other reports of crashes in the Town of Troy at that time, clearly he had trouble negotiating the curve.”
According to a press release from the Sheriff’s Office, Kenneth Ferry, 62, of East Troy, was rounding a curve on Highway 20 about a quarter mile south of Highway J when he lost control of the semi tractor-trailer owned by Lowell C. Hagen Trucking, Whitewater.
The truck overturned and hit an eastbound 2005 Volkswagen Passat driven by Kimberly N. South, 56, of Whitewater.
“You have a milk truck going too fast around a turn and load is going to shift and then it overturns,” McClory said.
The Passat then went into the ditch line where it also overturned.
“Both of them were trapped in their vehicles and had to be extricated,” McClory said.
Both South and Ferry were injured in the crash and were taken to local hospitals with what is believed to be non life-threatening injuries, the release stated.
The Walworth County Crash Investigation Unit was summoned to the scene and Highway 20 was closed for about six hours for the rescue, investigation and clean up.
The Wisconsin State Patrol, Lauderdale LaGrane Fire and Rescue, East Troy Fire and Rescue and Troy Township assisted the Sheriff’s Department.
The case is open and ongoing at this time.
“I don’t know if there will be charges or not, we haven’t gotten that far yet,” McClory said.
