A University of Wisconsin student died in a car crash on a Beltline exit ramp Sunday night, according to a Channel 3000 news report.

Madison police earlier reported a fatality in the deadly crash, but waited to contact the victim's family before releasing the name.

Police were unavailable for comment as of press time.

Channel 3000 reports that Andrew Eastman, 27, and one of his dogs died after being rear-ended in a four-car chain reaction. The vehicle which struck the four cars was later located and an ongoing investigation is looking into the fatal accident, police report.

Eastman was transported to University Hospital, where he later passed away.

The release also states three other patients were transported to Meriter Hospital for minor injuries. Additionally, two of Eastman's other dogs were trapped in a car but later freed.

University Communications was unavailable for comment as of press time.

As police were responding to the crash, Wesley Moore, 36, entered the closed-off area where officers were investigating, according to a MPD release.

Moore ignored officer signals to stop as he ran over flares and a cone. A 29-year-old male from Madison was injured during this incident, police reported. Moore was soon stopped and officers arrested him at the end of the Whitney Way off-ramp, the release states.

Moore has been charged with drunk driving, second-degree recklessly endangering safety and a number of other offenses after a hit-and-run accident on the south side of Madison, which occurred immediately before the fatal crash, according to a police release.

Monday morning 32-car pileup

The following day, a 32-car pileup on Stoughton Road delayed traffic east of downtown Madison early Monday morning.

The fire department reported the chain-reaction crash involved one semi-truck and 32 other vehicles. After receiving a 911 call around 6 a.m., police and fire crews shortly arrived, according to a release.

All 47 people in the pileup reported minor injuries but did not require hospitalization, according to the release. Police officers and the fire department searched for a victim said to be pinned under a vehicle, but later ascertained no one was in such condition.

Because of the cold early-morning weather, the city Metro transit system provided buses at the scene to keep those involved in the accident warm and to prevent further injury.

Julie Maryott-Walsh, a marketing and customer service manager for the Metro transit system, said buses are always available for such emergencies.

"We are available for something [of] this magnitude," she said. "It's generally for the public safety's benefit, to give them a safe place."

Maryott-Walsh said that in the past, the buses have also been used for displaced residents in apartment fires, requests from the Red Cross and evacuated business employees during an anthrax scare in 2001.

The Madison Police Department did not return calls as of press time.