MANITOWOC COUNTY, WI (WTAQ) - Authorities in eastern Wisconsin are investigating a pair of traffic deaths from Thursday afternoon.
In Manitowoc County, investigators said a 78-year-old Cato woman died after her van was hit by a pickup truck that failed to stop for a stop sign. It happened in the town of Cato at Hilltop and Hempton Lake roads.
The pickup driver, a 49-year-old Cato man, was not hurt.
In Washington County, a 55-year-old Sheboygan man died after a car hit a trailer that was attached to a truck. The truck was stopped on County Trunk "A" in the town of Farmington.
The driver was outside the truck when the car slammed into the trailer. The car driver, a 28-year-old West Bend woman, was extricated and flown to a hospital.
The names of both people who died were not immediately released.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)