By:
Leader Staff
Authorities have released the name of a 21-year-old Bowler area man who was killed in a single-vehicle crash in the town of Fairbanks early Sunday.
Joshua Pingel was driving a vehicle traveling north on U.S. Highway 45 just south of Menzel Road when it went into the ditch and hit a telephone pole. The crash happened just before 1 a.m. Sunday.
Pingel was pronounced dead at the scene.
A passenger from the Tigerton area, 24-year-old Jordan Reinke, was taken to Aspirus in Wausau with injuries that the Shawano County Sheriff’s Department said were not life-threatening,
No other information was available Tuesday afternoon.