Grant Freeze, a 16-year-old member of Ozaukee Aquatics and sophomore at Nicolet High School, died in a car crash on Thursday. Stock photo via Jack Spitser/Spitser Photography
On Thursday afternoon, Freeze was involved in a two-vehicle collision on Pioneer Road near North Klug Lane in Mequon, on his way to swim practice. The high school sophomore was traveling westbound when his vehicle crossed the center line and struck an eastbound dump truck driven by a 57-year-old man. Freeze was the only occupant in his vehicle and was transported to Froedtert Hospital following the crash. The dump truck driver sustained serious injuries and is currently recovering.
Freeze received his driver’s license just seven weeks before the accident, and at that time he decided to become an organ donor. “Grant got his driver’s license, and he decided to designate himself as an organ and tissue donor,” his mother, Kellie, shared on Facebook…