BURNETT, Wis (WSAU-Wheeler News) Authorities in southeast Wisconsin say alcohol and speeding may have caused a one-car crash that killed an Eau Claire high school band director. Dodge County sheriff’s deputies say 36-year-old Gene Power veered into a gravel shoulder where it spun, hit a culvert, and then struck a tree.
Power led the Eau Claire Memorial high school band. Media reports say he returned to the school system this fall after five years away at college and conducting a pair of youth groups. No one else was in the vehicle.
The crash happened late Saturday night on County Trunk E in the town of Burnett.
