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JANESVILLE
Fires in two remarkable Interstate crashes in Janesville on Monday and Tuesday were so hot that pieces of the concrete pavement cracked and crumbled.
Both crashes kept parts of Interstate 90/39 closed for many hours while the remains of semitrailer trucks and cars were removed and the damaged pavement was patched, officials said.
Tuesdayâs incident kept the northbound Interstate closed nearly 12 hours, starting at 1:40 p.m.
Sgt. Craig Morehouse of the State Patrol said Wednesday that both crashes remain under investigation. He had no word on what caused them.
In both incidents, a semitrailer truck crashed and burned.
Jim Parry, a longtime concrete engineer for the state Department of Transportation, said burning fuel and tires of a semitrailer truck can make the surface of the concrete expand so fast that the layers of concrete farther down canât keep up, and pieces of the road surface rupture.
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2 teens die in head-on crash with semi
SHEBOYGAN, Wisconsin (Wisconsin State Journal) Two Sheboygan teenagers died in a head-on crash involving their car and a semitrailer truck in Columbia County, the State Patrol said.
The crash happened shortly after 7 p.m. Wednesday on Highway 33 and Polinske Road in the town of Marcellon near Pardeeville, Sgt. Craig Morehouse said in a report.
An eastbound 2009 Pontiac G6 containing a 17-year-old and a 15-year-old from Sheboygan collided head-on with a westbound 2016 Kenworth semi driven by William S. Butcher, 27, of Eau Claire, on Highway 33, Morehouse said.
The State Patrol and Columbia County Sheriff’s Office are investigating which vehicle was possibly traveling in the wrong lane, Morehouse said.
January is National Human Trafficking Awareness Month and it’s a growing crime across the country and here in Wisconsin.
“Human trafficking is anything that involves a use of force of threats on victims for any kind of sexual exploitation or for forced labor,” Wisconsin State Patrol Sgt. Craig Morehouse said. “A lot of times you see that the victims are children and teens but it can happen to adults as well.”
Morehouse says although it can happen anywhere- they focus their crackdown efforts along the interstate pipeline.
“That goes between Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison and then all the way up to the Twin Cities,” said Morehouse.