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We’ve learned new details about a fatal accident in Kountze on Monday morning. It occurred at about 6:00 on Highway 69 on the north side of town in front of Read Ice Company. Kountze Police Chief Brent Slaughter says 61-year-old Edward Joseph Farkas, Sr., a trucker from Onalaska in Polk County, had stopped his big-rig on the side of the highway and his little dog, “Buddy”, had gotten loose from the cab of the truck. Slaughter said Farkas was trying to get his dog off the highway when both he and the dog were struck and killed by a car. A go-fund-me page has been set up to raise money to help the family with final expenses; https://www.gofundme.com/f/a7594-funeral-expenses