UPDATE: Sheriff’s officials identify the man who died as Juaquin Sanchez. The two men taken to the hospital were released. The suspected driver, identified as Jose Santos Gurdian, remains missing and is believed to have fled the area. Anyone who knows where he may be is asked to call the Marinette County Sheriff’s Office at 715-732-7627.
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TOWN OF BEAVER, Wis. — A single car crash kills a man in Marinette County.
At 4 p.m. Wednesday, the Marinette County Sheriff’s Office received a call of a power pole on fire between Highway 64 and County Highway P in the Town of Beaver. The caller said a man was lying near the burning pole.
Sheriff’s deputies responded and found a vehicle that had been traveling south left the pavement and went into a ditch before striking the pole and throwing the man from the vehicle. The victim, a 53-year-old Hispanic man, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Two other Hispanic males in that vehicle made their way to a nearby farm house. They were treated by EMT’s and taken to a hospital.
Sheriff’s deputies say a fourth Hispanic male left the scene and was still unaccounted for as of Wednesday night.
The crash remains under investigation.
