More details have emerged regarding the chain of car accidents on Highway 23 in the Town of Sheboygan Falls yesterday (August 8th).
The Sheboygan County Sheriff’s Office has shared that further investigations have shown that a 79-year-old Sheboygan woman traveling west on 23 made a U-turn at Sunset Road in front of a 19-year-old Sheboygan man traveling east.
The cars collided and became disabled in the middle of the eastbound lanes.
This caused a chain reaction of five additional vehicles crashing into them.
As a result, a 22-year-old Plymouth man was transported to a hospital in Waukesha to treat life-threatening injuries, while a 37-year-old Glenbeulah woman was brought to Aurora Sheboygan with serious injuries, along with her two juvenile passengers, who sustained minor injuries.
Shortly after this incident occurred, a second eight-vehicle accident was reported not far away on 23 eastbound east of Bridgeport Road, also in the Town of Sheboygan Falls.
Two individuals sustained minor injuries and were transported to St. Nicholas Hospital.
West of that crash, an additional two-vehicle crash occurred; however, no injuries were reported.
The 79-year-old woman who made the U-turn will be cited for failure to yield to the right of way, causing injury.
Sheriff’s deputies have said that the very dense fog cover yesterday morning has been deemed the overriding factor in all three accidents, but stated that the severity of the second and third accidents was mitigated due to drivers slowing after viewing the primary crash.
