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Pickup collides with logging truck
Posted: 05.18.2012 at 9:52 PM
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IRON RIVER TOWNSHIP -- Three people were taken to the hospital Friday after a pickup truck collided with a logging truck in Iron River Township. The accident happened at 1:30 p.m. at the intersection of U.S. 2 and Gibbs City Road.
The Iron County Sheriff's Office says a pickup truck driven by 30-year-old Adam Siebeck of Sherwood, Wisconsin was southbound on Gibbs City Road when he ran a stop sign and crashed into the side of the logging truck. Both vehicles overturned.
Siebeck, his passenger, 32-year-old Eric Rowney of Pewaukee, Wisconsin and the logging truck driver, 21-year-old Andrew Pestka of 0ntonagon were all taken to Northstar Hospital in Iron River for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.
The crash is under investigation, but authorities believe Siebeck was driving under the influence of alcohol.