Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

Accident on US 2 sends local to Wausau

By IAN MINIELLY

[email protected]

IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — On Tuesday morning, just before 7 a.m., an automobile driven by 64-year-old Kim Wright, of Bessemer, was struck on U.S. 2 while pulling out from Grandview Lane, near Aspirus Hospital.

The car was pushed on top of a snowbank on its roof, with the driver’s side taking the brunt of the damage. The vehicle was struck by a van driven by a 34-year-old female, Deztany Breese, from Wakefield, heading west on the highway.

A witness to the accident, who was trailing the van heading west on U.S. 2, informed Gogebic County Sheriff’...