CUDAHY, WI (WTAQ) – The family of two Oshkosh step-sisters killed earlier this week in a crash on Interstate 41 continue to struggle to accept this cold reality.
FOX 6 in Milwaukee spoke with the driver’s dad Spencer Lawrence, who recounted that his daughter Amanda Volgmann and her younger sister Kara had just stopped to eat as they were heading home Thursday morning.
“It’s 26 years of her life that I’ve been in, and, um, it’s all gone, in a second,” said Lawrence.
That second comes around 11:15 a.m. Thursday on I-41, north of Highway K, in the Town of Hartford.
26-year-old Amanda and 15-year-old Kara are northbound when Amanda reportedly loses control of the van she’s borrowing, before sliding through the median ditch, into the path of a semi-tractor trailer.
The two are pronounced dead at the scene.
“The feeling that I have, in my heart, it’s just, I can’t even explain it,” Lawrence said.
Lawrence says the last time he speaks with Amanda is Monday, his birthday.
“She goes, ‘I love you, Daddy.’ And she goes, ‘I’ll see you, soon,’” Lawrence recalls.
Thursday morning, Lawrence says Amanda prepares to visit a cousin in Hartford.
“She gave my grandson to her mother, and her 15-year-old sister said, ‘I’ll go along, so you don’t have to drive alone.’”
Lawrence explains, Amanda just started a new job and expressed optimism about her future with her two-year-old son, Zavier.
“She said she wants to spend more time, with her father, and do things with me, and then this happened. You know, and that’s what– what hurts me, the most,” Lawrence said.
Family members are trying to collect enough money to cover the cost of two funerals. Lawrence has established a GoFundMe page for the two.
