Helter-skelter driver cited

WEYAUWEGA –It was June 19 and Thursday Night-on-Main was in full swing. Residents were on Main Street in downtown Weyauwega enjoying the community-wide block party: food, music, fun and games.
At 6:19 p.m., a green sedan drove past the A-frame traffic barriers, crashed through a vendor stand, drove through a game of corn hole, and drove around another street barricade to head north on Mill Street.
There were no injuries other than one man got a sore fist from pounding on the vehicle’s window as it passed through the pedestrian-only street. Gold Cross Ambulance checked his hand and he was fine.
Weyauwega police officers got the goods: plate number, the make and model of the vehicle, video evidence and they had plenty of eyewitnesses. Later they found the driver, a 70-year-old man, at his home in Manawa. Police cited him for Reckless Driving-Endangering Safety, Hit and Run, Failure of Occupant to Notify Police of Accident, Operating Left of Center, Fail/Signal Turn/Unsafe Turn and Driving on Sidewalk.
On June 24, police added a criminal charge: Second-degree Reckless Endangering Safety.