{"id":604971,"date":"2026-04-25T04:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T04:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/604971\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T04:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T04:44:16","slug":"medical-emergency-may-be-behind-thursday-night-no-lights-pursuit-on-i-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/604971\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Emergency May Be Behind Thursday Night No-Lights Pursuit on I-41"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/316236400.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">reewungjunerr \/ Depositphotos.com<\/p>\n<p>A medical emergency may have been the reason that an Oshkosh man needed to be forced from an area highway on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>A Fond du Lac County Sheriff\u2019s Deputy reported a vehicle southbound on I-41 at around 10:45 PM Thursday.\u00a0\u00a0Lights and sirens failed to get the driver to pull over near Highway 151, and the pursuit continued at normal highway speeds down the interstate.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle exited at County Highway \u201cB\u201d, failing to stop and entering the wrong direction eastbound on \u201cB\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0Deputies tried a PIT maneuver in order to bring the dangerous actions to an end, but the driver accelerated away, striking a traffic sign and two trees before coming to rest.\u00a0\u00a0When officers approached, the driver hit the gas, spinning the wheels but going nowhere.\u00a0\u00a0The 85-year-old Oshkosh man then exited and surrendered.<\/p>\n<p>The man, reported to be confused, disoriented and trying to return to Oshkosh, was turned over to a family member after sustaining only a minor laceration during his crash.\u00a0\u00a0There was property damage to multiple trees on a private landowner\u2019s property and to the fleeing vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"reewungjunerr \/ Depositphotos.com A medical emergency may have been the reason that an Oshkosh man needed to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-604971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}