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Fatal Crash

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Nicolet Students Mourn Loss of Classmates Killed in High-Speed Crash

The afternoon after Halee Ludowise-Fischer and Jennifer Geren died in accident, friends gathered for strength and to share memories.

Under a gray drizzling sky Saturday afternoon, five Nicolet High School sophomores gathered at the site where their 15-year-old classmates Halee Ludowise-Fischer and Jennifer Geren died when they crashed their car into a tree and utility pole earlier in the day. The students signed their names to messages in permanent marker on a utility pole that the car had struck at West Good Hope Road and North Seneca Avenue in Glendale. Dozens of others already had left their own notes and bouquets of flowers. Jnana Martin, 16, said she didn't write anything on the pole because she couldn't think of anything that would do justice to her feelings for her friends. "There's just no words," she said. Martin said she had been best friends with Ludowise-…

bernadette macgivallry

1:32 am on Tuesday, November 20, 2012

This is terribly sad. My heart goes out to those who are personally affected by this. My only question is this - why were they fleeing the police in the first place? This could have all been avoided if traffic laws were followed properly.   more ›

Two Nicolet Students Killed in Glendale Accident

Sophomores tried to elude police and died after car ran into tree and utility pole, police say.

Two 15-year-old sophomore girls at Nicolet High School were killed early Saturday in a one-car accident in Glendale, authorities said. Halee Ludowise-Fischer of Glendale and Jennifer Geren of Fox Point died in the crash, which happened at about 1 a.m. at West Good Hope Road and North Seneca Avenue, Glendale police said. Ludowise-Fischer was driving her parents' car in River Hills when a police officer attempted to stop the vehicle for a traffic violation, police said. The two took off at a "high rate of speed" in an attempt to elude police and the officer did not attempt to pursue them and turned off his lights and siren, Glendale police said. The car kept speeding east on Good Hope Road for several blocks before crashing into a utility …

Amber

2:34 pm on Sunday, November 20, 2011

Rose i am so sorry parenting and children just wont be the same anymore. i'll see you monday friend and i will hug you. i love you and RIP halee and jenni   more ›

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