1 dead after crash involving county truck, car in Milwaukee
MILWAUKEE - A 30-year-old Brown Deer man is dead following a collision between his vehicle and a Milwaukee County dump truck at 43rd and Good Hope Road early Tuesday, March 9. The wreck happened around 2:45 a.m.
Police say a vehicle disregarded the red light and collided with a Milwaukee County dump truck.
When Jerry Turriff, owner of Jerry's Certified Service and Towing, drove into work just before 6 a.m., he knew something had happened.
Jerry Turriff
"Because I could see the lights from far west," Turriff said.
Milwaukee police still had the road blocked off, but let Turriff into his business. When the auto shop owner looked at his surveillance video, he saw his camera captured the collision.
Surveillance video captures collision between Milwaukee County truck, car at 43rd and Good Hope
"I saw a small sedan going westbound on Good Hope Road and went right through a red light -- and a county truck traveling southbound on 43rd struck it," Turriff said. "No one got out of the vehicles for minutes."
After the crash, Turriff's video shows the dump truck driver moves the car out of the intersection. Then another call pulls up.
Collision between truck, car at 43rd and Good Hope, Milwaukee
"The passenger got out of the car right away and walked up to the door and looked in and opened the door," Turriff said.
At 2:49 a.m., the surveillance video shows the truck driver get out of the vehicle -- and seven minutes later, police arrive.
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Collision between truck, car at 43rd and Good Hope, Milwaukee
Turriff said the intersection stays busy.
"There’s a lot of traffic on this road at night. Both roads," Turriff said. "We’ve seen several. There’s a lot of crashes here."
No other injuries were reported.
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