MERRILLAN, Wis. – The driver of a milk-truck who died in a nine-fatality accident Friday was Daniel G. Liddicoat, 51, of Rewey, Wisconsin. Liddicoat was ejected from the truck when it entered a ditch and struck a driveway leading into a wooded area. This was about 7:50 a.m. Liddicoat was about 130 miles from his home near Platteville in extreme southwest Wisconsin. The names of other victims, in a van from Virginia, also were released albeit belatedly by Clark County Sheriff Scott Haines. Those names had been reported previously by news media. The sheriff did not explain his four-day delay.
Liddicoat. Had driven milk for family trucking business since high school.
Liddicoat profile
Dan Liddicoat haad been driving milk trucks for the family business for 34 years. He picked up and delivered milk in a tri-state area. He was the voice of Liddicoat Trucking, talking daily with dispatchers and drivers to get milk. Among survivors: His childhood sweetheart and two daughters. In high school he was a member of Future Famers and the swing choir and played basketball and football four years. On graduation in 1990 he went to work in the family farm and trucking business