Ingleside man among victims in fatal Wisconsin crash
MADISON, Wis. - The Wisconsin State Patrol has released the names of four people killed in a chain-reaction crash in southern Wisconsin last week.
Authorities on Wednesday identified the four dead as Phillip Bruno, 55, of Ingleside, Illinois, who was driving a semi; Eleanor Heeringa-Owen, 59, of DeForest, Wisconsin, who was driving a Volkswagen Passat; Samantha McMullen, 23, of Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, who was driving a Chevrolet Malibu; and Joseph Kosinski, 72, of Madison, Wisconsin, who was driving a Kia Seltos.
Eight vehicles were involved in the Friday morning crash that happened around 6:45 a.m. as traffic moved around an earlier crash scene.
A 50-year-old driver of a pickup and a 10-year-old boy who was a passenger, both from Oconomowoc, suffered life-threatening injuries in the multivehicle crash.