No Traffic Deaths In Green Lake County For The Second Year In A Row
4 January 2019 News
For the second consecutive year Green Lake County had no traffic fatalities. Chief Deputy Mark Putzke credits that to multiple factors. “Interaction with both state, national, local level partnerships with area law enforcement, targeted safety grants, court and correctional facility programs, grants and so on have all helped us I believe.” Dodge County’s efforts to reduce traffic deaths on its highways in 2018 seemed to work. The county saw eight traffic deaths compared to 20 in 2017. Fond du Lac County on the other hand recorded 15 deaths up from 11 the previous year. Waushara County had five deaths two fewer than 2017 and Winnebago County had 13 up from 9 the previous year. Statewide traffic deaths were down.
FDL County Had 15 Fatal Traffic Accidents In 2018
Fond du Lac County finished with 15 traffic fatalities in 2018, four more than the previous year. Chief Deputy Sheriff Ryan Waldschmidt says that above the county’s five and ten years averages which is 10 deaths. He noted five of the fifteen fatal accidents the past year occurred during snow storms when drivers were driving too fast for conditions, including the latest accident this past Monday when 25-year-old Rose Larson of Brandon was killed when she lost control on icy and snow-covered roads and was struck by another vehicle. Waldschmidt says in you take those five accidents out the county would have been at its average of ten fatal accidents a year.
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