One person was seriously injured Thursday in a “failure to yield” car accident with two additional vehicles, but drugs and/or alcohol are not considered factors in the crash.
According to a press release from the Mount Pleasant Police Department, officers were called shortly after 4 p.m. Thursday to the intersection of Emmertsen Road and Washington Avenue for reports of an accident involving three vehicles and one driver who needed to be extricated. When police arrived on scene, all three vehicles were in the southeast corner of the intersection.
Failure to yield reported by witnesses
Witnesses told officers a silver sedan was traveling west on Washington and turned left onto Emmertsen without yielding to traffic coming east on a green light. The sedan was struck by both a pick-up truck and a black sedan.
The driver of the silver sedan was transported to Froedtert Hospital by Flight for Life with serious injuries that were not considered life-threatening.
This accident is still under investigation by the Mount Pleasant Police Department. Anyone with information on this incident is asked to call the Mt. Pleasant Police Department at 262-884-0454 option #4 or Crime Stoppers at 262-636-9330 or via e-mail through the website www.racine.crimestoppersweb.com.
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