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A Milwaukee County Sheriff's deputy responding to a crash on I-94 was injured when a driver behind him lost control around 10:30 a.m. Sunday, according to the sheriff's department.
The deputy, with 16 years on the force, was treated at a hospital for back and neck pain, according to a news release, which does not name the deputy or the hospital.
A 33-year-old woman was killed in a two-vehicle crash early Sunday in Milwaukee that occurred after a brief pursuit by police, and one or more people in each vehicle involved may have fled the scene.
Officers from District 5 spotted a 2005 Pontiac Aztek driving erratically without headlights by 9th and Locust streets around 2 a.m. and tried to stop the vehicle for about a minute but canceled the pursuit when the Aztek refused to pull over, police said.
Authorities have identified the victim of a rollover accident on Interstate 43 at Highway 100 Sunday morning.
The driver of the vehicle, Tammy Gawlitta, 39, of West Allis, was ejected from the passenger side window of her Dodge Durango and was trapped underneath in a ditch, according to the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department. Two passers-by lifted the vehicle off its side and pushed it upright before performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation on Gawlitta.
Milwaukee police have arrested a 24-year-old Milwaukee man suspected of driving the rental truck that crashed into a mother holding her 18-month-old girl, killing the toddler, a police spokesman said Friday. The man has not yet been named.
Cheyenne Jackson, 21, and her 18-month-old daughter, Ariana Matosek, were in a crosswalk at S. 6th and W. Hayes streets, heading west, shortly before 4:20 p.m. Wednesday when the truck hit them. Jackson was taken to the hospital with injuries not believed to be life-threatening.
All lanes of eastbound I-894 at S. 92nd St. have reopened after being closed for a little more than an hour due to a vehicle fire Wednesday morning.
The state Department of Transportation said a crash occurred about 9:45 a.m., resulting in the fire.
The Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office is investigating.
A spin-out accident involving several vehicles has slowed down Interstate 94 northbound near Grange Avenue.
Driving conditions are dangerous to to falling snow and some ice on the roadway.
Several vehicles were spun out, blocking all lanes of the Interstate.