131 Vehicles Pile Up Under Whiteout Conditions In Wisconsin

Authorities have identified a 30-year-old teacher as the person killed in what is now being called the largest traffic crash in Wisconsin history. Winnebago County Sheriff John Matz on Monday identified Andrew Schefelker of Oshkosh as the victim of Sunday’s 131-vehicle pileup on Interstate 41. Matz says Schefelker was a middle school/high school science teacher in the Iola-Scandinavia School District. Seventy-one others were injured in the chain-reaction crash that happened in the Neenah area amid whiteout conditions. At the time of the crash, snow was blowing across I-41 and piling up on the median. The conditions were so bad that at one point, two deputies say they were standing 30 feet apart and couldn’t see each other.