ARGYLE — A Mineral Point milk truck driver is dead following an accident into an abandoned quarry on Thursday.

According to Lafayette County Sheriff Reg Gill, at 11:56 a.m. on April 30, the Lafayette County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch Center received a 911 call reporting a motor vehicle crash involving a milk truck in the 5000 block of Wisconsin 81 in the Town of Argyle.

Lafayette County Sheriff’s Deputies, Argyle Fire Department and Argyle EMS were immediately dispatched. Soon after, the coroner was requested.

The investigation of the crash revealed that at approximately 5:30 a.m., a 2012 Peterbilt Quad Axle Milk Truck, driven by Jaykub E. Anderson, 32, of Mineral Point, was traveling westbound on Wis. 81, when the truck left the roadway on the north side of the road.

“The truck continued through the ditch for a short distance before traveling off the edge of an abandoned quarry,” Gill said. “The truck dropped to the quarry floor where the milk tank, loaded at least partially with milk, sheered off of the truck frame as it overturned.”

Anderson, the lone occupant of the truck, was declared dead at the scene by the Lafayette County Coroner’s Office.

Anderson’s milk truck sustained very extreme damage and was towed from the scene.

Wis. 81 was reduced to single lane traffic for several hours during the investigation and the removal of the truck from the scene.

The Lafayette County Sheriff’s Office was assisted at the scene by Argyle Fire and EMS, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Wisconsin State Patrol and Lafayette County Highway Department.