Wrong way driver on Highway 151 killed in head-on crash

The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a fatal crash that occurred Friday night, April 18, 2025 just after 11:00 p.m.

At 11:04 the Sheriff’s Office received a report of a vehicle driving the wrong way on Highway 151, going southbound in the northbound lanes near State Highway 73 near Columbus. About a minute later, another 911 call was received reporting the vehicle had crashed into another vehicle head-on.

Preliminary investigation showed that the wrong way driver, a 22-year-old female from Beaver Dam, was pronounced deceased at the scene as a result of the injuries sustained in the crash. She had two passengers in the vehicle, both 17-year-old females. They sustained serious injuries with one transported to Prairie Ridge Hospital in Columbus and the other to UW-Health in Madison.

The driver and sole occupant of the northbound vehicle, a 37-year-old female from Fond du Lac, received non-life threatening injuries and was transported to Prairie Ridge Hospital in Columbus