An Ellison Bay man had to be airlifted to a Green Bay hospital Wednesday morning after a two-vehicle crash that caused his to roll over onto its side.

Emergency personnel were called to Plateau Road about a half-mile west of Old Stage Road just before 11:45 a.m. after Roland Smith of Ellison Bay crashed into the rear-end of a parked truck. According to the incident report, the impact sent Smith and his vehicle up a ramp before they were launched into the cargo area of the truck and into an attached salt spreader. Smith’s vehicle came to rest on its driver’s side, where he was later extricated by emergency personnel before being airlifted.

The incident report states that the truck, owned by Ashley Property Services, was illegally parked on Plateau Road with no signs or cones set up to warn oncoming traffic. Despite that, no citations were issued.

The crash closed Plateau Road for over an hour so the Door County Sheriff’s Department and Sister Bay/Liberty Grove Fire Department could tend to the accident, and the tow truck driver could remove Smith’s vehicle.