19-year-old Wisconsin man dead, two teenagers severely injured after rollover crash
BASS LAKE, Wis. (WFRV) – A 19-year-old Wisconsin man is dead, and three others were sent to the hospital after a rollover crash that ejected three occupants from the vehicle early Friday morning.
According to a release, shortly after 3:15 a.m., the Sawyer County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a single-vehicle rollover crash with multiple injuries.
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The crash was located on Highline Road, south of the intersection of Williams Road, in Bass Lake.
A preliminary investigation revealed that 20-year-old Dabid Flores from Hayward was driving a vehicle north on Highline Road at a high rate of speed when he lost control. The vehicle overturned multiple times before coming to a rest in the east ditch of the northbound lane.
Three passengers in Flores’ vehicle, 19-year-old Reese Frederick of Hayward, a 17-year-old girl, and a 16-year-old girl, also from Hayward, were ejected from the car.
The Sawyer County Sheriff’s Office says that Frederick died at the scene of the crash, while the two teenage girls were sent to a nearby hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Flores received minor injuries and was treated and released from a nearby hospital. He is currently being held in the Sawyer County Jail for second-degree recklessly endangering safety.
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Deputies say that speed and alcohol are believed to be a factor in the deadly rollover crash.
Authorities continue to investigate the crash; no additional details have been provided.
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