A driver is dead after rear-ending a snowplow on I-94 in Waukesha Monday morning. Wisconsin State Patrol is still trying to determine exactly how it happened. It left the highway shut down for hours and sent people in nearby vehicles running across the expressway to help.
The driver was identified by the Wisconsin State Patrol as Sara Marie Sobieralski, 48.
Bingo Emmons was driving east on I-94 to an appointment around 9:30 a.m. when traffic suddenly came to a halt.
“I just saw the white smoke and all the spinning and crashing and metal flying, and just, like, that happened so fast,” Emmons said.
Former TMJ4 meteorologist Brian Gotter was traveling in the opposite direction, just a few cars behind the SUV and snowplow when the crash occurred.
“I notice there is a large snow plow in the median scraping the ice and the snow off, so I started merging into the center lane because it was going into the third lane,” Gotter said.
Gotter got behind a semi-truck, which blocked his view of the crash that happened seconds later. Emmons witnessed the entire incident…