News: Greenwood – Freak Car Accident (Jan 1971)

Transcriber: Ronald Olson posted4u@charter.net 

Surnames: Klinke, Branstiter, Podoveitz, Haunschild

----Source: Tribune/Record/Gleaner (Loyal, Wis.) 04 Feb 1971

A freak car accident at Greenwood (Clark Co., Wis.), happened on Saturday afternoon around 4:00, when a car dirven by Susan Klinke, with Mrs. Frank Klinke as a passenger, crossed the Rock Creek bridge heading south and hit an ice patch. A strong gust of wind struck the car at the same time and threw it into a spin.

The car crossed the road, hit a bridge guard rail and stopped, "teetering" crosswise on top of the guard rail with a highway post imbedded under the front floorboard.

Both the Branstiter and Greenwood Body Shop wreckers were called. The car was hoisted into the air, to allow the guard rail to be cut with an acetylene torch and the post to be sawed off.

Neither Mrs. Klinke or her daughter sustained injuries.

Chief of Police, Albert Podoveitz of Colby and Abbotsford happened to be driving past minutes after the accident and he in turn radioed officer Oldham and Greenwood's Chief of Police, Harlan Haunschild, to assist.