Names of Mercer crash victims released

The Wisconsin State Patrol – North Central Region Wausau Post has released the names of two occupants involved in a one-vehicle rollover crash that resulted in one fatality and an injury just south of Mercer in Iron County on March 30.

Walker Alan Kempen, 29, of Mercer, died after the 2012 Audi A4 he was driving south on U.S. 51 rolled several times at the Tower Ridge Road at around 5:33 p.m. before landing in the west ditch, according to the press release. Kempen was ejected from the vehicle and was declared deceased at the scene.

The passenger, Cole Alan Heniff, 23, of Darien, suffered non-life threatening injuries and was transported to Howard Young Medical Center in Woodruff…

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