Danis Vargas Alvarenga, Yorling Gonzalez Gutierrez Death – Authorities have identified the man and woman killed in a crash on U.S. Highway 151 near Waupun last week. Danis Vargas Alvarenga, 25, and Yorling Gonzalez Gutierrez, 28, died when a wrong-way box truck hit their Kia car on Highway 151 near State Highway 49 around 2:45 a.m. on Oct. 25. Two other people inside the Kia remain in the hospital as of Monday, the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office said.
Dispatchers began receiving reports of the wrong-way truck heading south in the northbound lanes of the highway shortly before the crash. After the initial impact, a northbound Chevrolet car also hit the Kia. The Chevy’s three occupants suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
An updated news release from the sheriff’s office did not provide details as to why the box truck’s driver, a 69-year-old Pennsylvania man, was driving the wrong way on the freeway.