FOND DU LAC, WI (WTAQ) – Authorities say two people were killed and three others hospitalized after a multi-vehicle crash in Fond du Lac Wednesday.
Officials from Fond du Lac Fire Rescue were called to the scene on the northbound side of Interstate 41 near Highway 23 at 11:46 a.m.
“We got a vehicle that wound up being rear-ended into a semi unit,” says Wisconsin State Patrol Captain Tony Burrell.
In a release, officials say a 2014 Chevrolet Cruze driven by a 23-year-old Neenah woman slowed to stop behind a semi-tractor trailer and was hit from behind by a 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee driven by a 32-year-old North Fond du Lac man. The Jeep forced the Cruze into the semi.
Drivers of the Cruze and the Jeep were taken to St. Agnes Hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The passenger in the Jeep, a 35-year-old Eldorado man, was flown to Theda Clark Medical Center with serious injuries.
Two passengers in the Cruze, a 26-year-old David Michael Button of Neenah and a 8-year-old child, were pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the semi was not hurt.
Fond du Lac Fire Chief Peter O’Leary says paramedics had to go over the fence on the frontage road to get to the victims.
“They actually hopped the fence and then whenever other units came, then we cut the fence apart so that we could access them,” explains O’Leary. “We ultimately had vehicles both on I-41 and Pioneer Road for patient access and scene control.”
The northbound lanes of I-41 reopened to traffic just after 3 p.m.
