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Motorist dies after hitting highway sign

A Wausaukee man died Saturday morning when he lost control of his car on U.S. Highway 141 and struck a highway sign, according to a statement by the Oconto County Sheriff’s Department. The man and a female passenger from Wausaukee were traveling south on Highway 141, about 300 feet south of County Road E in the town of Abrams, when the accident occurred at about 10 a.m. The man, 34, was pronounced dead at a Green Bay hospital, and the woman was treated for nonlife-threatening injuries. Their names were not released. It was the fourth traffic fatality of the year in the county.