
No place for a boat. Deep in roadside borrow pit. Image: Vernon County sheriff
What stop sign? Now smithereens
VIOLA, Wis. – Two vehicles, one hauling a boat on a trailer, crashed at a rural intersection. Although wreckage was a tangled mees, no one was injured. This was about 5:45 p.m. west of Viola. Deputies said that Kolebe Charles Ferguson-McCoy, 18, of Viola, was westbound toward Viroqua on State Highway 56. John Andrew Werthwein, 56, of Soldiers Grove was traveling south on County Road S, entered the intersection, and collided with Ferguson-McCoy’s vehicle and boat, deputies said.. Collateral damage: A traffic sign and a stop sign.