González siblings, clockwise from top left, Daniel, 25, Fabian, 23, Daniela, 9 and Lilian, 14, died in a wrong-way crash. More than 50 people are killed each year, on average, by wrong-way crashes in Wisconsin, according to the federal government. Nationally, the average toll is about 1,500, more than 500 of those on divided highways.
"She had a very loving spirit," Paulina González said of her daughter Daniela, 9. The four children Gonzalez brought from her native Ecuador when she moved to Wisconsin and married Kurt Schilling in 2017 were killed in a wrong-way crash in December.
The Peterson family at church on Christmas Eve 2022, four days before Grant died. Shown are David and Kristin Peterson with children Dawson and Grant, back row, and Linnea, Karina, Seth, Mathias and Jared, front row.
The exit ramp where Kaden Churchill mistakenly entered Interstate 90-94 has standard warning signs.
Jared Peterson was in a wrong-way crash that killed his brother Grant.
Kristin Peterson visits the gravesite of her son, Grant, at Washington County Memorial Park in West Bend. She said her family's faith has kept them going after his death in a wrong-way crash. "That is the anchor for our soul," she said.
Highway 10 near Weyauwega, where Scott Farmer entered the wrong way and killed four people in a crash, is marked with standard warning signs. In some places, officials have made signs larger, lower or brighter than normal, or added flashing wrong-way alert systems, to deter wrong-way driving.
Paulina González, right, with her husband, Kurt Schilling, third from left, lost children Daniel, 25, Fabian, 23, Lilian, 14, and Daniela, 9, in a wrong-way crash in December on Highway 10 close to their home near Weyauwega. Wisconsin has the nation's highest percentage of fatal crashes involving wrong-way drivers. At left are Silvia and Segundo González, Paulina's siblings.
On Dec. 16, brothers Daniel and Fabian González treated their sisters Lilian and Daniela to dinner at Culver’s in Waupaca, as they did most Saturdays, a day off from their jobs milking cows at a dairy farm.
Grant Peterson died in a wrong-way crash near Wisconsin Dells. His mother and brother, who was also in the crash, discuss the loss.
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Kurt Schilling and Paulina González talk about losing four children in a wrong-way crash near Weyauwega.
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González siblings, clockwise from top left, Daniel, 25, Fabian, 23, Daniela, 9 and Lilian, 14, died in a wrong-way crash. More than 50 people are killed each year, on average, by wrong-way crashes in Wisconsin, according to the federal government. Nationally, the average toll is about 1,500, more than 500 of those on divided highways.
"She had a very loving spirit," Paulina González said of her daughter Daniela, 9. The four children Gonzalez brought from her native Ecuador when she moved to Wisconsin and married Kurt Schilling in 2017 were killed in a wrong-way crash in December.
Kristin Peterson visits the gravesite of her son, Grant, at Washington County Memorial Park in West Bend. She said her family's faith has kept them going after his death in a wrong-way crash. "That is the anchor for our soul," she said.
Highway 10 near Weyauwega, where Scott Farmer entered the wrong way and killed four people in a crash, is marked with standard warning signs. In some places, officials have made signs larger, lower or brighter than normal, or added flashing wrong-way alert systems, to deter wrong-way driving.
Paulina González, right, with her husband, Kurt Schilling, third from left, lost children Daniel, 25, Fabian, 23, Lilian, 14, and Daniela, 9, in a wrong-way crash in December on Highway 10 close to their home near Weyauwega. Wisconsin has the nation's highest percentage of fatal crashes involving wrong-way drivers. At left are Silvia and Segundo González, Paulina's siblings.
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