HOLLAND (WHTC) — Fruitport resident Mark Snyder, 59, died after the motorcycle he was riding had a near-head-on crash with a car just before 6:30 p.m. Friday in Spring Lake Township, according to Ottawa County Sheriff’s Sgt. Jay Douglas.
Snyder was northbound on 168th Avenue, near Taft Road, when a 2014 Ford Focus pulled out of a private drive to go south. The driver, identified as Spring Lake resident Eva Meekhof, 48, didn’t see Snyder’s motorcycle, Douglas said.
Snyder was wearing a helmet’ the crash ejected him from his 1997 Yamaha motorcycle. Witnesses aided him until the ambulance rushed him to Hackley Hospital, where he died, Douglas said.
Douglas said Meekhof was wearing a seatbelt and not injured in the crash, which remains under investigation.
In addition to Ottawa County Sheriff’s road patrol, responders included the Sheriff’s Spring Lake-Ferrysburg community policing unit, Spring Lake Township Fire Rescue and North Ottawa Community Ambulance.
