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Holiday traffic keeps emergency personnel busy

During your Memorial Day weekend travels in Door County, you may have encountered the lights of a police car, fire truck, or ambulance.

 

According to the Door County Dispatch Center report, emergency personnel responded to approximately 400 calls from 8 a.m. on Friday until 8 a.m. on Tuesday. The call volume peaked on Friday, when dispatchers took 126 calls, most of which were traffic stops.

 

One of the calls taken over the weekend occurred Monday at about 8:15 a.m. when a 72-year-old man drove into a bathroom building at Potawatomi State Park. According to the accident report, the man was pulling into the parking lot when he accidentally hit the gas instead of the brake before the accident occurred. His passenger, a 74-year-old Fall River woman, had taken off her seat belt when the accident occurred, hitting her head on the car’s windshield. She was taken to an area hospital to be treated for her injury.

 

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