CAMPBELLSPORT, Wis (WSAU) Counselors will return to Campbellsport High School today, as classes resume for the first time since nine soccer teammates were involved in an S-U-V crash early Saturday. Three girls were killed, and six others were still hospitalized as of last night.
16-year-old Katie Berg died yesterday. 15-year-old Sabrina Stahl and 17-year-old Caitlin Scannell – daughter of Campbellsport soccer coach Tim Scannell – died at the scene. All nine were on the school’s varsity and junior varsity soccer teams. Authorities said the S-U-V, driven by 18-year-old Carly Ottery, was speeding when it veered into a ditch and rolled over. It happened about 3:30 Saturday morning at the bottom of a large hill on Beechnut Road just north of Highway 67.
Fond du Lac County sheriff’s deputies said high speed and a failure to wear seat belts were factors in the crash – and alcohol, drugs, and the weather were not factors.Sergeant Ryan Waldschmidt said officers have preliminary information on what the girls were doing – but they’re still not totally sure why they were out so late.
A vigil for the students was held Saturday at a church in nearby Eden. Many people gathered at Campbellsport High School yesterday, where a candlelight vigil took place last evening. Ottery and another 18-year-old woman were both in satisfactory condition at last word at a Fond du Lac Hospital. Four 16-and-17-year-olds were still in serious condition at Milwaukee Children’s Hospital.
