UPDATE: The Sheriff's Office said the victims of the traffic fatality have been identified as 59 year old Sande Walker of Oconto Falls and 73 year old Marvin Lueneburg of De Pere.
The Oconto County Sheriff’s Office and the Brown County Medical Examiner’s Office are investigating.
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TOWN OF LENA (NBC 26) -- Two people died after a wrong-way crash on Highway 141 in the Town of Lena, according to a news release from the Oconto County Sheriff's Office.
Crews got the call to Highway 141, about a quarter-mile north of County Highway A just after 5:30 p.m. Thursday, authorities said.
An SUV was going northbound in the southbound lanes of the highway near the on ramp to County Highway A, and crashed into a truck going southbound in the southbound lanes, authorities said.
A 73-year-old man, the truck’s driver, and a 59-year-old woman, the SUV driver, were pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.
A 70-year-old woman who was a passenger in the truck was taken to a local hospital.
The occupants of the truck are from De Pere, while the SUV’s driver was from Oconto Falls, authorities said.
