The Sheboygan County Sheriff''s Office has released the names of the two people who died in a car crash on Wednesday, November 16.
The two individuals have been identified as 80-year-old Lewis Schmidt and his wife, 79-year-old Geraldine Schmidt.
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Sheboygan County Sheriff's Deputies say two people are dead after a two-car crash.
According to deputies, it happened around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, at the intersection of State Highway 57 and County Road FF in the Town of Rhine, Sheboygan County.
When deputies arrived, the passenger, a 79 year-old woman was found dead at the scene. The 80 year-old man who was driving died on the way to HSHS Saint Nicholas Hospital in Sheboygan as a result of his injuries.
Both were from rural Elkhart Lake Wisconsin.
A 72 year-old woman in the other car from rural Kiel had serious non-life threatening injuries and was taken to Aurora Sheboygan Memorial Medical Center.
According to deputies, the preliminary investigation indicated that one vehicle was east bound on County Road FF and failed to stop at the stop sign and collided with the vehicle traveling northbound on State Highway 57 in the intersection.
Names of the victims are not being released at this time.
