PLATTEVILLE, WI : 86-year-old man dies after Grant Co. crash on Thursday, 9th November 2023

An 86-year-old man died after a crash in Grant County earlier this week, officials reported Thursday.

The rural Dodgeville man was driving an SUV with two passengers Monday eastbound on County Road A, west of County Road D, explained the Grant County Sheriff’s Office. Investigators determined he failed to slow down at a T-intersection and crashed into an embankment on the east side of County Road D, in Platteville.

The SUV went several hundred feet into a cornfield before stopping.

Officials were told about the crash around 5:30 p.m. Monday. When they arrived, first responders removed the driver from the vehicle and took him to a hospital.


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