A pickup truck driver killed a man from Madison, Wisconsin on Tuesday afternoon when he ran through a stop sign at a Green County intersection and crashed into a semi truck, law enforcement officials said.
According to a release, Green County sheriff’s deputies arrived at the scene of the accident — the intersection of County Road C and Highway 69 — just before 1 p.m.
The driver of the pickup truck, Paul L. Warner, 63, of Oregon, was heading east on County Road C and failed to stop at the intersection’s stop sign. He proceeded to crash into a semi-tractor that was pulling a trailer south.
The impact caused the pickup truck to roll over and to expel Warner and his fellow companion William D. Burdick, 35, of Madison onto the road. Burdick was found dead at the scene; an injured Warner was flown by Med Flight to UW Hospital in Madison.
The semi truck landed, overturned, on the opposite shoulder, deputies said. The driver of the vehicle, James S. Chipman, 64, of Pigeon, Michigan was not hurt by the accident.
Investigating deputies closed down the highway for five hours at the section where the accident took place. They found no evidence of alcohol having been a factor in the incident but the investigation is still underway.
Burdick is the sixth person to have died in a Green County traffic-related accident this year, law enforcement officials said.