Pickup driver hurt in crash with milk truck
A pickup truck driver was injured early Wednesday morning when he drove his truck into and under a milk truck that was starting to back into a driveway on U.S. 14 in Rock County.
The driver, Lester Paulson, 63, McFarland, was pinned in his pickup, which caught fire after the crash.
Paulson was pulled from the wreckage by two motorists who broke out a window to get to him, according to an accident report from the Rock County Sheriff's Office.
The crash happened about 5 a.m. in the southbound lane of U.S. 14, 0.2 miles north of West Holt Road, about three miles north of the village of Evansville.
Responding units from the sheriff's office, the Evansville Police Department and the Brooklyn Fire and EMS found the pickup truck underneath the milk truck, with Paulson sitting near a ditch on the west side of the road, being assisted by motorist Daniel Nipple of Brooklyn and an unidentified motorist who were able to pull him from the pickup truck.
The milk truck driver, Randy Ulrich, 40, Fort Atkinson, was not injured.
Paulson was taken to UW Hospital, his condition unknown at this time.
The highway was closed for about an hour and a half until the pickup truck and milk truck could be removed.
