Vehicle goes airborne on Charlotte Court

An Antigo man escaped injury in a dramatic single vehicle crash on the city’s far northeast side Saturday night.

According to the Antigo Police Department, Hobart H. Packard, 51, was traveling north on Charlotte Court just after 10 p.m. when his truck crossed the center line and entered the ditch. His vehicle struck a snowbank, went airborne for several feet and clipped a pine tree before landing. It then continued to travel through the ditchline, striking and destroying a telephone cable junction box.

Read more: Antigo Daily Journal

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On a street with a 25mph speed limit? Airborne??

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