Iowa County Fatality On Farm Tractor

A 23-year-old Mineral Point man died Tuesday night after his farm tractor crashed while heading down an Iowa County highway. According to the Iowa County Sheriff’s Office, Slade Norton was heading east on County Road DD around 8:20 p.m., towing a wagon filled with bales of hay. Investigators say the vehicle broke in half while going downhill near Woodlawn Road. Both the tractor and the wagon continued sliding downhill. The tractor went into a ditch, while some parts of it as well as the wagon ended up in the Yellowstone River. The Iowa County Coroner’s Office pronounced Norton dead at the scene.