Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office Report for Week Ending September 8
LINCOLN COUNTY – Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputies conducted 67 traffic stops last week. There were 20 security checks. Deputies responded to 8 calls involving cars hitting deer, and one call of a car hitting a bear. Deputies followed up on 9 calls for unsafe driving.
On Saturday September 7, deputies were alerted to a wrong-way driver, traveling S/B on the N/B lanes of US Hwy 51 near mile marker 222 in the Town of Birch. The driver was a 77-year-old woman from Manitowoc. There was no evidence of impairment. and a relative was contacted to come and pick her up. Deputies issued a citation for operating on the wrong side of the highway.
