Forest township accident occurs

UPDATE 9-8-2021: The name of the driver that struck a power poll on County Highway P just north of Highway 64, at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday August 31st has been released. According to the St. Croix County Sheriff’s Department Mathew Anderson, 19 of Clear Lake was air lifted to Regions Hospital following the accident. There were no other persons in his vehicle at the time of the accident. Assisting the St. Croix County Sheriff’s Department at the scene were the Glenwood City Ambulance and Fire Department.

The DRIVER OF THIS CAR was airlifted by helicopter early Tuesday morning, August 31st after the vehicle he was driving entered the east ditch on County Highway P in Forest Township, just north of Highway 64, and struck a power pole. A Glenwood City firefighter was also injured while using power tools to extract the driver from the vehicle and was taken to an area hospital. Details of the accident were not available at Tuesday’s noon press time. —photo by Carlton DeWitt