One Person Injured In Jo Daviess County Crash

One person was injured when a vehicle crashed driving through road construction Sunday in Jo Daviess County. A female juvenile from East Dubuque was taken by private vehicle to Midwest Medical Center in Galena for treatment of minor injuries. According to the Jo Daviess County Sheriff’s Department the girl was a passenger in a vehicle driven by a female juvenile from Dubuque. A report says the driver was traveling south on North Badger Road approximately a half-mile south of Third Avenue at about 1:05 a.m. when the vehicle drove around two “road closed” construction signs and continued traveling south. The driver lost control of the vehicle when the pavement changed to gravel and dirt, and the vehicle struck a pile of rocks. The driver was cited with disobeying a traffic control device and failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident.