On September 13th, 2011 at 8:48 p.m., Dubuque emergency responders were dispatched to a field adjacent to the 5000 block of Pennsylvania Avenue on a report of an ATV rollover.
On September 13th, 2011 at 8:48 p.m., Dubuque emergency responders were dispatched to a field adjacent to the 5000 block of Pennsylvania Avenue on a report of an ATV rollover. The scene was located several hundred feet southwest of the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and Radford Road by a family member who went searching for the ATV operator after he failed to return home when expected. The ATV operator, Walter P. McFadden, 74, of 5580 Pennsylvania Avenue, Dubuque, was pronounced dead at the scene. Dubuque Police Department Traffic/Crash Investigators are handling the ongoing investigation and no further details are available for release at this time.