Man killed when car hits pole
A town of Grand Rapids man was killed and three others injured when a car left a city street at 8:23 pm Sunday and hit a light pole and tree.
Dead is Walter Haslow, 68, 6521 N. Park Road, of head and chest injuries.
Injured are the driver, Rick Kehrberg, 20, 446 Daly Ave., in satisfactory condition at Riverview Hospital with right arm and possible back injuries and passengers, James Siems, 46, Port Edwards, given outpatient treatment for a lacerated forehead, and Joseph Helmuth, 19, 1240 Lincoln Street give outpatient treatment for an injury to his lower left leg.
Police report the car owned by David Knuth, 465 Case Street was headed north in the 100 block of 3rd Street South when it left the road, skidded 182 feet and broke off a light pole, continued another 19 feed and came to rest after hitting a tree and the vehicle was demolished.
Kehrberg was charged by police with driving while under the influence of an intoxicant. The traffic fatality is the city's and Wood County's first for 1975.
From the Daily Tribune of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, dated January 6th, 1975 and typed in by Carol Strayer. Please feel free to copy this information but please retain this message with it. Thank you
A town of Grand Rapids man was killed and three others injured when a car left a city street at 8:23 pm Sunday and hit a light pole and tree.
Dead is Walter Haslow, 68, 6521 N. Park Road, of head and chest injuries.
Injured are the driver, Rick Kehrberg, 20, 446 Daly Ave., in satisfactory condition at Riverview Hospital with right arm and possible back injuries and passengers, James Siems, 46, Port Edwards, given outpatient treatment for a lacerated forehead, and Joseph Helmuth, 19, 1240 Lincoln Street give outpatient treatment for an injury to his lower left leg.
Police report the car owned by David Knuth, 465 Case Street was headed north in the 100 block of 3rd Street South when it left the road, skidded 182 feet and broke off a light pole, continued another 19 feed and came to rest after hitting a tree and the vehicle was demolished.
Kehrberg was charged by police with driving while under the influence of an intoxicant. The traffic fatality is the city's and Wood County's first for 1975.
From the Daily Tribune of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, dated January 6th, 1975 and typed in by Carol Strayer. Please feel free to copy this information but please retain this message with it. Thank you
Man killed when car hits pole
A town of Grand Rapids man was killed and three others injured when a car left a city street at 8:23 pm Sunday and hit a light pole and tree.
Dead is Walter Haslow, 68, 6521 N. Park Road, of head and chest injuries.
Injured are the driver, Rick Kehrberg, 20, 446 Daly Ave., in satisfactory condition at Riverview Hospital with right arm and possible back injuries and passengers, James Siems, 46, Port Edwards, given outpatient treatment for a lacerated forehead, and Joseph Helmuth, 19, 1240 Lincoln Street give outpatient treatment for an injury to his lower left leg.
Police report the car owned by David Knuth, 465 Case Street was headed north in the 100 block of 3rd Street South when it left the road, skidded 182 feet and broke off a light pole, continued another 19 feed and came to rest after hitting a tree and the vehicle was demolished.
Kehrberg was charged by police with driving while under the influence of an intoxicant. The traffic fatality is the city's and Wood County's first for 1975.
From the Daily Tribune of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, dated January 6th, 1975 and typed in by Carol Strayer. Please feel free to copy this information but please retain this message with it. Thank you
A town of Grand Rapids man was killed and three others injured when a car left a city street at 8:23 pm Sunday and hit a light pole and tree.
Dead is Walter Haslow, 68, 6521 N. Park Road, of head and chest injuries.
Injured are the driver, Rick Kehrberg, 20, 446 Daly Ave., in satisfactory condition at Riverview Hospital with right arm and possible back injuries and passengers, James Siems, 46, Port Edwards, given outpatient treatment for a lacerated forehead, and Joseph Helmuth, 19, 1240 Lincoln Street give outpatient treatment for an injury to his lower left leg.
Police report the car owned by David Knuth, 465 Case Street was headed north in the 100 block of 3rd Street South when it left the road, skidded 182 feet and broke off a light pole, continued another 19 feed and came to rest after hitting a tree and the vehicle was demolished.
Kehrberg was charged by police with driving while under the influence of an intoxicant. The traffic fatality is the city's and Wood County's first for 1975.
From the Daily Tribune of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, dated January 6th, 1975 and typed in by Carol Strayer. Please feel free to copy this information but please retain this message with it. Thank you
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