LITTLE BLACK, Wis. (WFRV) – One man is dead following a crash Sunday morning in Wisconsin that authorities say was caused by speed and alcohol.
According to a release from the Taylor County Sheriff’s Office, Deputies responded at 6:15 a.m. to reports of a single-vehicle crash on Gibson Drive in the Town of Little Black with an injured man appearing to be ejected from his vehicle.
Deputies and other emergency responders arrived at the scene, where they found a black Dodge Ram 1500 pickup truck overturned on its roof in a ditch with extensive damage to all areas.
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Nearby, officials say they found the driver of the vehicle, 28-year-old Eric James Doberstein from Withee, dead at the scene.
A preliminary investigation determined that the Dodge truck had been going north on Gibson Drive at a high rate of speed when it veered into the east ditch and hit a driveway embankment before going airborne and landing in a field where it overturned and came to a rest on its top.
Deputies suggest speed and alcohol were factors in the crash. No other information is available, and an investigation into the crash is ongoing.
