A truck driver is dead following a rear-end crash on I-43 Thursday morning that shut down the northbound highway for most of the day near the Waukesha/Big Bend exit. Nearby residents said the loud sound of the crash could be heard from inside their homes.
“It sounded like a big, like thunder,” Karina Cervantes said.
“All of a sudden heard this loud noise and I remember thinking, ‘ What in the world was that?'” Barbara SanFelippo said.
The Waukesha County Sheriff’s Office said two trucks crashed when one rear-ended the other around 6 a.m. The driver who struck the back of the other truck died at the scene. The other driver was rushed to the hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening. Authorities closed I-43 northbound from the Mukwonago exit to the Waukesha/Big Bend exit — not only to investigate the crash, but also to clean up cargo that spilled from both semis onto the road.
Watch: Deadly crash could be heard inside Big Bend neighbors’ homes, shut down I-43 for hours
Deadly crash could be heard inside Big Bend neighbors’ homes, shut down I-43 for hours
When neighbors looked outside, they saw the crash on the highway…