Note to self: when one gets drunk and needs to fight with other passengers in vehicle at night, restrict area of fighting to road ditch, not pavement where vehicular travel takes place.

HANNAH ~~~ just wanted to give you a shout out and tell you I am hoping you are doing well! It is sad that our growing season is coming to an end.... have a great weekend. :)

Sinsterssis asks "what does it make you"? It makes me a hillbilly, a redneck, "country folk" what ever you want to call it. Go back to one of the little local bars and sit there a few hours mingling and tell me what you would call them. I'm not embarrassed, I still go back and hang with them and they still wear sleeveless shirts to weddings. I left there 30 years ago and am one of the "city cousins" now. I was insensitive to the deceased and I do apologize for that. See you at the next family reunion.

I am not sure what is more sad-the actual event that seriously hurt innocent people-including the deceased love ones' or the ignorance of some of the posts on here. CallitasIseeit-I suggest you change your screen name to thinkbeforeyoupost-you are saying "that part of the state is full or hillbillies" then you go on to clarify "most of them are my relatives." What does that make you? Since when has it become okay in our society to mock our "relatives" or even worse mocking the deceased! Yes-it should not have happened but I guarantee you many people in that "part of the state" and Freeport are grieving the loss of loved ones-show some compassion.I am from "that part of the state" so if that makes me a hillbilly I would rather be that then what people are calling you! I just hope i'm not one of your relatives!

DUECER...I think you need to RE-read the story. The lady with the children was NOT the drunk driver.

916WI: I sure am pretty that is what meant to say.

12 dreams.......I'm fairly sure you meant to use "never" instead of "always"......no?

2 dimwits get drunk, start fighting in the middle of the highway, get run over and die, and some of you people are mad at us for calling it like we see it? Jeez. Nature is at its best when it weeds out some of the people that need to be weeded out.....

"Death Race 2009" -- how many points were two guys from IL worth?

And where is David Carradine when you need him most -- hanging around the bathroom, I suspect!

You people always cease to amaze me.

So who won?

I don't know why the woman driving the 2 guys that were killed wasn't smart enough to just tell the cops that one of the guys that were fighting was driving the car. At very least she should have done whatever possible to avoid a DUI.......

Wow 2 guys fighting on a highway and another lady driving drunk with kids in the car. You all might be rednecks!!

truth1: While the 3rd person was stupid for driving while drunk it may have been smarter for the driver to pull over so their wasn't a fight in the auto while she was still driving ... could have been alot worse outcome otherwise.

darwin award !

CallisasIseeit - Oh, okay.

Some people, sorry to say, are just so disgustingly high and mighty, I get embarrassed for them because they have no idea how truly ignorant they sound picking on petty thinks such as grammar. Ugh. Seriously, if everyone where the same, wouldn't life be incredibly boring?? Go volunteer at the grade school as teacher's helpers if it is so necessary for you to correct people.

Wow. This is just completely unbelievable. Wow.

Holy crap.

Am I the only one that actually made sense of the original article. It seems pretty clear to me which driver was cited for drunk driving. I don't even read posts from SarahB or Hannah anymore. It hurts too much. It's a language they speak everyday but for some reason typing anything in a complete and understandable sentence is way too difficult. As far as the accident...I feel bad for the woman that hit these two yahoos, but now there are two less idiots running around.

if you have an issue with the way this news clip is written then you need to complain to the Associated Press, it was created by them not the Gazette

She shouldn't of SLOWED DOWN and maybe they would have stayed in the car.

Freeport is what, 15 miles from the Wisconsin border in Green County? Close enough for me makessense.

Authorities identified two men Thursday who were run over and died while fighting in a roadway Wednesday night.

A driver hit Avari D. Baker, 29, and Leonard L. Harris, 32, both of Freeport, Ill., Wednesday night just on the Wisconsin side of the state's border with Illinois.

The collision happened just after 11:30 p.m.

The men were passengers in a car in Lafayette County when they started arguing and the car's driver pulled over on Wisconsin Highway 78, according to a news release from the county sheriff's office. They were lying in the northbound lane of the road when a 33-year-old Monroe woman hit them with her Oldsmobile. The woman had two children in the car. She also was hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries.

The woman driving the car with the two male passengers was issued a citation alleging drunken driving, according to the news release.

Hey callit--YOU read the story again---it says two men from Illinois!!!

Swisschick-Most of them are my relatives.

OMG- who cares..Geesh, bloggers-stick with the story..
How sad stupidity killed 2 men..

CallitasIseeit - and you know this, because??

hannah.... you should be arrested for drunken posting. You're all over the place!!

Hannah, you want me to leave you and your idiotic serial posts alone and then you come after me? Your last sentence is so garbled no right minded person would have a clue to what you are trying to say. If it is correcting the grammar of the Gazette, that is the biggest joke yet.

Rude or not that part of the state does have a lot of hillbillies in it and that is a fact.

Nominations for the Darwin Award?

C'MON people, lets try in comprehend what we read!

learn to read.....

2 cars. 1st car had a drunk driver and 2 male passengers who got out to fight in the road. 2nd card, woman from Monroe with 2 children in it driving down the road and ran over the 2 men who were laying in the road.

Pete, read the story again....

Dumb, dumber and dumbest - feel bad for those kids being put in such danger and being exposed to such stupidity.

From the Journal Sentinel page...

"The woman driving the car with the two male passengers was cited for drunken driving, according to the news release."

OMG people! Two families just lost their loved ones. WTH is wrong with you people?

Read the rules about posting - #3 "be nice."

It doesn't surprise me. That part of the state is full of hillbillies.

I'd say the drunk driver would be at least 50% at-fault since he/she(the article doesn't specify)was drunk....depending on their BA level...If they were twice-over, it should be more than 50%.

you can't fix stupid. sorry to hear this

Karma at its best...