FDL Man Dies After Going Through The Ice On Lake Winnebago
22 January 2019 News
Update
Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s officials have released the names of those riding two ATVS that went through the ice on Lake Winnebago Monday night leading to the death of a 55-year-old Fond du Lac man. Peter Zacherl died at St. Agnes Hospital after he was rescued from the water. Zacherl was the owner, president and a director of Zacherl Funeral Home in Fond du Lac. His son 23-year-old Daniel Zacherl, an apprentice funeral director at the funeral home, and 22-year-old Sabrina Butler were on the other ATV. They were also taken to St. Agnes Hospital where they were treated and released. The ice they went through was only an inch or two thick.
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A 55-year-old Fond du Lac died after he and two others riding ATVs on Lake Winnebago off the Fond du Lac River went through the ice late Monday night. Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s officials say the man was part of a group that also included a UTV, but the UTV stopped before it to went through the ice. The Fond du Lac man, a 23-year-old Fond du Lac man and 22-year-old Brownsville woman riding on another ATV, were taken to St. Agnes Hospital in Fond du Lac. The 55-year-old man had been in the water for some time and was unconscious and non-responsive when he was taken to the hospital where he died. The younger riders were treated at St. Agnes and released. The area where the incident happened is three-tenths of a mile east of Lakeshore Drive and Franlin Avenue and is about a half mile in size. Ice thickness there is only one to two inches and there is an ice crack.
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