LA FARGE, WIS – Vernon County Sheriff Roy Torgerson reports a juvenile driver was uninjured after losing control of their vehicle on State Highway 82 near La Farge and striking a utility pole.
Sheriff Torgerson states that on Tuesday, July 9, at approximately 8:00 p.m., a single-vehicle 16-year-old female from rural La Farge was driving west on State Highway 82, near the Bear Creek Cemetery, east of La Farge. The vehicle traveled onto the right shoulder and the operator lost control during an apparent over-correction. The vehicle went off the right side of the roadway, struck a fence and utility pole.
The operator was wearing a seatbelt, and no injuries were reported.
Assisting the Sheriff’s Office were the La Farge Fire Department and La Farge Municipal Utilities.
The crash remains under investigation by the Vernon County Sheriff’s Office.
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