On May 11, both drivers were killed in a two-car accident in the southbound lanes of I-43 in Milwaukee. | fsHH/Pixabay
On May 11, both drivers were killed in a two-car accident in the southbound lanes of I-43 in Milwaukee. | fsHH/Pixabay
A Milwaukee mother is imploring drivers to be more careful after a wrong-way driver on Interstate 43 killed her son in a recent early morning crash.
"I'm still in shock, still in shock,” Kassandra Anderson told WISN.com. “It hurt. My heart is broke, like a hole is there. These people need to slow down, slow down and drive careful because now I don't have my baby. My baby is gone."
Anderson said police came to her house in the early morning hours of May 11 to inform her that her 19-year-old son, Tyler, had perished in the crash just off Chase Ave. The crash also took the life of 27-year-old Ivy Caldwell, who was in her SUV traveling north in the southbound lanes of Interstate 43.
Anderson noted that her son had just left her house and was headed to a friend's house, the WISN report said. She is still stunned and grief-stricken by the sudden tragedy. But she finds some solace in the Mother’s Day card and flowers her son recently gave her as a gift.
"'Happy Mother's Day, mamma. I love you with everything in me,'" Anderson read from the card. "Had I known this was gonna be the last time I seen him, I wouldn't had let him go. I love him, and I'm going to miss him.”
Authorities are continuing their investigation and have not yet publicly said where the woman got on the freeway traveling the wrong direction.
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