Jefferson County
Associated Press
LAKE MILLS, Wis. - A faulty exhaust system leaked carbon monoxide inside a car, killing a woman and injuring a man.
The two were found at about 10:15 a.m. Sunday, according to a Lake Mills police department news release.
Marcie J. Hufford, 37, of Whitewater, was not breathing and didn't have a pulse and was pronounced dead at Fort Atkinson Hospital, police said. The man, Matthew Wheeler, 26, of Lake Mills, was breathing but unresponsive and he was hospitalized in serious condition at St. Luke's Hospital in Milwaukee Monday.
The two had gone to the vehicle together and left it running, police said. They appeared to have suffered from acute carbon monoxide poisoning.
The vehicle's owner told police it had a defective exhaust system, police said.
"It had been turned on, obviously for heat, and sometime between 3 and 5 in the morning the carbon monoxide from the exhaust system got into the vehicle," police Sgt. Mike Selck said. |
