82-Year-Old Crashes Through Airport Perimeter Fence

Tell me again why we don’t test the elderly more often before giving them a driver’s license?

An 82-year-old Cudahy woman accidentally veered off E. Layton Ave. and crashed through the perimeter fence at Mitchell International Airport this afternoon, according to the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office.

Heavy rain was falling when the crash occurred about 2:30 p.m. just east of S. Pine Ave., said sheriff’s Sgt. Phil Wentzel.

The woman was traveling east when she lost her way in the rain, veered off the road and drove through the chain-link fence, Wentzel said.

The woman did not realize she had driven through the fence and continued driving east on an airport access road until one of her tires went flat near a cluster of hangars, where she was met by sheriff’s deputies, Wentzel said.