Highway 25 blocked. In a 55- mph zone entering Fountain City from the south. Image: Buffalo County sheriff
Two victims air-lifted to LaCrosse trauma center
FOUNTAIN CITY, Wis. — Six people were injured, some seriously, when five vehicles piled up south of Fountain City. Two victims were airlifted 40 miles to a LaCrosse hospital. The others went nine miles to the Winona hospital. Sheriff Michael Osmond declined to release the names of the injured immediately. The accident occurred about 12:15 p.m. on dry pavement. The wreckage blocked Highway 35 for several hours. The highway is the main Wisconsin artery between LaCrosse and the Twin Cities. The State Patrol said a southbound vehicle crossed the centerline and hit an oncoming vehicle head-on. Three other vehicles piled into the colliding vehicles.