Updated Hit and Run Release

On February 9, 2017 the Sauk County Sheriff’s Office investigated a Hit and Run traffic crash on STH 23/33 near Golf Course Road in which a red Chrysler vehicle struck another vehicle and then fled the scene.

On February 10, 2017 the investigating Deputy sat at the same location at the same time the crash happened the day before.  He observed a red Chrysler drive by him with damage consistent with the damage sustained in the Hit and Run crash.  The Deputy stopped the vehicle and made contact with the operator.  Eric J. Ostrander, age 37, of Reedsburg, WI admitted to the Deputy that he was the offending driver in the Hit and Run crash.  Ostrander was placed under arrest and transported to the Sauk County Jail where he was charged with Hit and Run and Failure to Notify Police of an Accident.

Sheriff Chip Meister