STAMBAUGH TOWNSHIP -- Authorities say texting while driving was the alleged cause of a crash involving a 24-year-old woman on Iron County Road 424, west of Scott Lake Road, on Tuesday morning.
The Iron County Sheriff's Department responded to the call at 8:44 a.m. when they found a 2000 Saturn well off the road in a tree line. The driver, Cassandra Leigh DuBois, got distracted due to text messaging, according to the sheriff's department.
As a result of the distraction DuBois left the roadway, hit a Wisconsin Energies Electric transmission support pole, and then came to rest in a stand of trees and brush. She sustained non-life threatening injuries to her head, neck and chest, and was taken for treatment at North Star Health Systems in Iron River.
Iron County Sheriff Mark Valesano would like to remind motorists that although cell phones and smart phones are a wonderful tool in our daily lives, they have no place in a motor vehicle. Redirecting your attention from the highway is a gamble nobody should want to take.
"Your life, could depend on it," said Valesano.
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