A Wausau man is in the hospital following an early morning car accident in Marathon County Thursday.

According to officials with the Marathon County Sheriff's Department, 25 year-old Derrick J. Baptist, of Wausau, was traveling southbound shortly before 1:30 a.m. on Highway X Thursday when the accident occurred. Sheriff's Lieutenant Frank Hanousek said Baptist failed to negotiate a curve at South Road in the town of Knowlton, near Kronenwetter. The motorcycle and driver went through a fence and struck a tree before coming to rest. 

Baptist was talking to officers and paramedics at the scene, but he suffered major injuries, Hanousek said. He was transported by medical helicopter to University of Wisconsin hospital in Madison.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

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A bicyclist was critically injured in a Wausau car accident Monday near Antigo.

According to officials with the Langlade County Sheriff's Department, 26 year-old Timothy Wissbroecker, of Antigo, was injured shortly after 11:00 a.m. while riding his bicycle on Highway 64 about five miles west of Antigo. Wissbroecker was transported to Aspirus Wausau hospital following the crash.

The vehicle that struck Wissbroecker did not remain at the scene. The Langlade County Sheriff's Department and the Wisconsin State Patrol continue to look for help locating the hit-and-run vehicle. It is described as a light-silver honda sport utility vehicle model year 2007 to 2009 with passenger-side damage and Wisconsin license plates.

Three people were injured Wednesday in a two-vehicle crash in Lincoln County.

According to officials with the Somo Police Department, the accident occurred shortly after 4:00 p.m. Wednesday on Highway 8 near Tripoli. Two vehicles collided and left the roadway. One of the vehicles struck a tree on the shoulder. 

One person was able to free themselves from the wreckage, while two other had to be extracted by emergency response crews. One of the drivers was transported by helicopter from the scene and taken to Wausau-Aspirus Hospital for treatment.

Police have not released the names of anyone involved in the crash. The accident remains under investigation. The Lincoln County Sheriffs Department says alcohol was not a factor in the collision.

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Authorities have determined that a Hephzibah High School homecoming queen who died in a car accident was using her phone when she lost control.

According to Richmond County Coroner Grover Tuten, 18 year-old Jewel Miller's Verizon Wireless account indicates that she sent or received a message at 11:47 p.m. the night of the crash. Five minutes later and accident call was dispatched by the Richmond County Sheriffs Office to emergency response crews. 

Tuten explained the time between the message and the call as "people hearing the accident, recognizing that it was an accident, responding to the scene, calling 9-1-1 and relaying the information to the 9-1-1 dispatcher." 

Authorities suspected Miller was using her cell phone after it was found lying open next to her body. She was pronounced dead shortly before 1:00 a.m. Thursday.

Lincoln County police are investigating the circumstances of a car crash that left one 63-year-old woman dead and her 23-year-old son injured.

The man was able to pull his mother from her sinking pickup truck after it crashed into Moraine Lake at a Harrison shore. Emergency workers arrived in time to transport the man to a nearby hospital to be treated for minor injuries.

Police are uncertain as to what caused the crash, whether the woman lost control of the vehicle due to mechanical failure or driver error or if foul play was involved. The results of the coroner's autopsy have not been release to the public for police fears that it might comprise their ongoing investigation. The toxicology report from the crash will be released, and is expected to be made public by next week. The Lincoln County Sheriff's Department noted that it was working with the Wisconsin Department of Criminal Investigation in order to double-check their results.

Somo was the site of a two-vehicle crash that occurred around 3:50 p.m. on Wednesday, leaving three people injured.

Lincoln County police sited the incident on Highway 8 at Garvin's Place. Tomahawk firefighters assisted two injured people from one of the crashed cars, while the third passenger in that vehicle was able to exit on their own power. That vehicle ran off the road following the crash, stopping only after crashing into a tree and then a telephone pole.

The three people in the car that left the road following the crash were all injured, although the two passengers suffered only minor injuries. The driver air-lifted via helicopter to Aspirus Wausau Hospital, where that individual underwent treatment for injuries described as non-life threatening. The driver of the other vehicle in the crash did not require assistance from authorities and was not injured from the collision.

The crash itself is under investigation. Police are still uncertain as to what caused the wreck to happen, if anyone was truly at fault, or if there was a defect with the road. Police have determined that alcohol was not a factor in the accident.

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