Truck Driver Cited For Damaging 11 Vehicles

April 07, 2009
Contact: Elise Schaffer, PIO Phone: (608) 284-6142 Email: schaffer@co.dane.wi.us
Sheriff's Office

At approximately 7:30 am, Dane County Sheriff’s Deputies began receiving reports from motorists of a gravel truck traveling eastbound on Highway 19, creating what some motorists referred to as a “hail storm” of gravel. An L & M Transit Company dump truck operated by Jason Hanson of Dodgeville left the Yahara Quarry near Waunakee without properly checking his load of gravel. A total of eleven motorists have reported vehicle damage sustained in this mornings incident. The damage consists of cracked windshields in addition to chips and dents to the bodies of some vehicles. Mr. Hanson was cited for spilling waste on a roadway, which carries a fine of $186.00. ###