Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune,WI,Monday, December 19, 1960
Gerald W. Bottensek, 28, 411 Wood Ave. became the sixteenth traffic fatality of the year in Wood County, when a car in which he was riding went out of control, overturned and knocked down a telephone pole on Highway 13, 11 miles south of Wisconsin Rapids, about 11 p.m. Saturday. Bottensek was pronounced dead of head injuries on arrival at Riverview Hospital. George Peterson, 24, 2811 Sampson St., the owner of the car, escaped injury in the accident, county police reported. Sheriff Tom Forsyth said today that investigation is continuing in an effort to definitely establish which of the two men was driving at the time of the crash. Peterson was found several hours later, wandering in the woods some distance from the scene, and told county police he had left the wreck site with the intention of reporting it. Investigation showed that the vehicle went off the pavement onto the right shoulder, skidded sideways for 50 paces, then ran off the left shoulder of the road, rolled on its top and snapped off the telephone pole. The accident victim was born Jan. 23, 1932, in Wisconsin Rapids, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Bottensek. He married Marlene M. Beidel in this city Aug. 25, 1956. An employee of Consoweld Corp., he had served four years in the Navy during World War ll. Surviving are his parents; his wife; one son, Dale Thomas; four brothers, Donald, Harold, Ronald and Robert; one stepbrother, William Loken, and one sister, Mrs. Alan Walker, all of Wisconsin Rapids.
Gerald W. Bottensek, 28, 411 Wood Ave. became the sixteenth traffic fatality of the year in Wood County, when a car in which he was riding went out of control, overturned and knocked down a telephone pole on Highway 13, 11 miles south of Wisconsin Rapids, about 11 p.m. Saturday. Bottensek was pronounced dead of head injuries on arrival at Riverview Hospital. George Peterson, 24, 2811 Sampson St., the owner of the car, escaped injury in the accident, county police reported. Sheriff Tom Forsyth said today that investigation is continuing in an effort to definitely establish which of the two men was driving at the time of the crash. Peterson was found several hours later, wandering in the woods some distance from the scene, and told county police he had left the wreck site with the intention of reporting it. Investigation showed that the vehicle went off the pavement onto the right shoulder, skidded sideways for 50 paces, then ran off the left shoulder of the road, rolled on its top and snapped off the telephone pole. The accident victim was born Jan. 23, 1932, in Wisconsin Rapids, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Bottensek. He married Marlene M. Beidel in this city Aug. 25, 1956. An employee of Consoweld Corp., he had served four years in the Navy during World War ll. Surviving are his parents; his wife; one son, Dale Thomas; four brothers, Donald, Harold, Ronald and Robert; one stepbrother, William Loken, and one sister, Mrs. Alan Walker, all of Wisconsin Rapids.
Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune,WI,Monday, December 19, 1960
Gerald W. Bottensek, 28, 411 Wood Ave. became the sixteenth traffic fatality of the year in Wood County, when a car in which he was riding went out of control, overturned and knocked down a telephone pole on Highway 13, 11 miles south of Wisconsin Rapids, about 11 p.m. Saturday. Bottensek was pronounced dead of head injuries on arrival at Riverview Hospital. George Peterson, 24, 2811 Sampson St., the owner of the car, escaped injury in the accident, county police reported. Sheriff Tom Forsyth said today that investigation is continuing in an effort to definitely establish which of the two men was driving at the time of the crash. Peterson was found several hours later, wandering in the woods some distance from the scene, and told county police he had left the wreck site with the intention of reporting it. Investigation showed that the vehicle went off the pavement onto the right shoulder, skidded sideways for 50 paces, then ran off the left shoulder of the road, rolled on its top and snapped off the telephone pole. The accident victim was born Jan. 23, 1932, in Wisconsin Rapids, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Bottensek. He married Marlene M. Beidel in this city Aug. 25, 1956. An employee of Consoweld Corp., he had served four years in the Navy during World War ll. Surviving are his parents; his wife; one son, Dale Thomas; four brothers, Donald, Harold, Ronald and Robert; one stepbrother, William Loken, and one sister, Mrs. Alan Walker, all of Wisconsin Rapids.
Gerald W. Bottensek, 28, 411 Wood Ave. became the sixteenth traffic fatality of the year in Wood County, when a car in which he was riding went out of control, overturned and knocked down a telephone pole on Highway 13, 11 miles south of Wisconsin Rapids, about 11 p.m. Saturday. Bottensek was pronounced dead of head injuries on arrival at Riverview Hospital. George Peterson, 24, 2811 Sampson St., the owner of the car, escaped injury in the accident, county police reported. Sheriff Tom Forsyth said today that investigation is continuing in an effort to definitely establish which of the two men was driving at the time of the crash. Peterson was found several hours later, wandering in the woods some distance from the scene, and told county police he had left the wreck site with the intention of reporting it. Investigation showed that the vehicle went off the pavement onto the right shoulder, skidded sideways for 50 paces, then ran off the left shoulder of the road, rolled on its top and snapped off the telephone pole. The accident victim was born Jan. 23, 1932, in Wisconsin Rapids, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Bottensek. He married Marlene M. Beidel in this city Aug. 25, 1956. An employee of Consoweld Corp., he had served four years in the Navy during World War ll. Surviving are his parents; his wife; one son, Dale Thomas; four brothers, Donald, Harold, Ronald and Robert; one stepbrother, William Loken, and one sister, Mrs. Alan Walker, all of Wisconsin Rapids.
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