Pardeeville man killed in motorcycle crash

Deputies: Motorcycle driver not wearing helmet at time of crash

TOWN OF CALEDONIA, Wis. — A Pardeeville man was killed in a motorcycle crash in the town of Caledonia Sunday night, according to a release from the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office.

Emergency crews responded to a vehicle crash involving a motorcycle that clipped the side of a passenger car while the car was yielding to an emergency vehicle, investigators said. The crash happened on Highway 33 at Interstate 90/94.

The driver of the motorcycle, Steven R. Paulson, 59, was transported to UW Hospital, and later died.

Paulson was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash, deputies said.