An accident turns deadly in Sawyer County.
It was a little after 9:30 on Thursday morning, July 29th, when the Sawyer County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a two vehicle traffic crash on STH 77/27 at the intersection of CTH T west of Hayward in the Town of Lenroot. Department responded.
Preliminary investigation indicates a vehicle driven by a 36-year-old female from Milwaukee was traveling east bound, left of center, and collided head on with a west bound car driven by 56 year old Debra Ann Cox ,from Hayward. Debra Cox was transported by Sawyer County ambulance to a hospital. The female driver and a female passenger in the other vehicle were air lifted to a Duluth Hospital.
Two male passengers in the rear seat of the Honda CR-V were pronounced deceased at the scene of the crash. Names of the occupants in the Honda CR-V are not being released at this time pending notification of relatives.
