The Niemuth
Family - Newspaper Articles
-- Dale Harold
Kressin --
- A Jackson truck driver was convicted
Thursday on charges resulting from a fatal accident on Interstate
- 43 in Sheboygan County last October.
- Dale H. Kressin, 60, plead no contest
to charges of homicide by negligent use of a motor vehicle and
- second-degree reckless injury, according
to the Sheboygan County Clerk of Courts Office.
- A pre-sentence investigation was
ordered, and no sentencing date has been scheduled at this time.
- The charges stemmed from an Oct.
11 accident that killed Maria B. Perron, 34, of Caledonia, Ill.,
and
- injured four others.
- According to the Sheboygan County
Sheriff's Department, Kressin was driving a semi-truck northbound
- on I-43 in the right lane. While
attempting to make an illegal U-turn at a median crossover, he
pulled into the path of a another semi in the left lane.
- The two trucks collided, overturning
Kressin's rig and sending it into the southbound lanes, where
it struck
- a sport utility vehicle carrying
Perron, her husband and another couple. Perron and Suzannah M.
Young, 28, of Rockford Ill. were ejected. Young suffered serious
injuries.
- The accident closed southbound I-43
for nearly seven hours.
-
- [Source: unknown newspaper, July
29, 2000]
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