By Ed Nadolski
Editor in Chief
A 21-year-old Waterford woman died Jan. 27 after the car she was driving slid into the path on an oncoming pickup truck on Highway 75 near Eagle Lake.
Cassandra Pokorny, a 2012 graduate of Waterford Union High School, was taken to Aurora Memorial Hospital of Burlington where she was pronounced dead following the crash in the Town of Dover.
Speed and slippery road conditions are listed as contributing factors in the head-on crash, according to a press release issued Racine County Sheriff’s office.
Pokorny was driving a Toyota Prius south on Highway 75 near McNamara Road in the Town of Dover about 5:30 a.m. when the crash occurred.
According to sheriff’s officials, the car driven by the Pokorny began to fishtail in snowy conditions and crossed the centerline into the path of the northbound GMC pickup truck.
A caller advised a sheriff’s dispatcher that the crash partially ejected Pokorny from the vehicle and she did not appear to be breathing, the release said.
Rescue workers performed CPR before Pokorny was transported to the hospital, according to the release.
Shortly after the crash the pickup truck caught on fire, but the blaze was extinguished by firefighters from Kansasville and Union Grove, the release said.
The driver of the pickup was a 48-year-old man from the Kansasville area, said Sheriff’s Lt. David Kinservik, who declined to release his name.
He did not suffer significant injuries and was examined at the scene by rescue personnel before being released, Kinservik said.
Deputies on scene reported that both drivers were wearing their seatbelts.
The investigation into the crash was continuing as of press time Wednesday morning, Kinservik said.
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