Truck engaged in winter highway maintenance overturns, injuring driver
Feb 23, 2026, 5:46 AM CT
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Vernon County Sheriff Roy Torgerson reports on Friday morning (February 20) at approximately 8:45, the Vernon County Sheriff’s Office 911 Dispatch Center received a report of a motor vehicle crash on Kelbel Road near the intersection of Knapp Valley Road, rural Cashton.
Knowlton Scot Sanders, 60 of rural Cashton, was operating a dump truck, actively engaged in winter highway maintenance, plowing snow. Due to the heavy snowfall, Sanders lost reference to the roadway edges and went off the left side of the road. The truck rolled onto the driver’s side and came to rest just off the roadway.
Sanders was injured and transported to Vernon Health in Viroqua by the La Farge Area Ambulance and Gundersen Tri-State Ambulance. Assisting the Vernon County Sheriff’s Office at the scene were the Cashton Fire Department, Cashton First Responders, and La Farge Area Ambulance.
Adam Hess has been involved in radio broadcasting since 1990, with many of those years spent on the air at WRCO FM in Richland Center. Currently, Adam hosts the Weekend Wake-up and Prime Mover Saturdays on WRCO FM, jumps in and helps out with news duties, handles Social Media duties for WRCO and WRCE, and is the Director of Technology at a Southwest Wisconsin School District. Reach him at adam.hess@civicmedia.us.
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