OLIVE TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 2, 2024) – Five persons were injured in two separate crashes on opposite corners of Ottawa County within less than an hour’s time on Saturday afternoon.
No names were disclosed in either incident by Ottawa County Sheriff’s Sergeant Matt Wildfong.
The first collision came around 2 PM at the intersection of 24th Avenue and Greenly Street. An eastbound vehicle had stopped for a stop sign, and mistakenly believing that it was a four-way stop, although there was no signage indicating that at the scene, the 29-year-old man from the northwest Indiana town of Dyer proceeded forward and into the path of a southbound vehicle.
The driver of that second vehicle, a 70-year-old Holland woman, was pinned inside upon impact and had to be extricated by rescue workers. She, along with a 47-year-old woman and a 14-year-old girl, both of whom are from Hudsonville, were taken by LIFE Ambulance to an unnamed hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries. The Indiana man was treated for bumps and bruises at the scene, and was cited for failing to yield the right of way.
The second collision came around 2:35 PM on Lakeshore Drive near Timberdune south of Grand Haven, when a northbound motorcycle couldn’t avoid striking a deer that had darted onto the roadway. The biker, a 24-year-old Bay City man, was thrown from his machine upon impact, and was taken to another undisclosed medical facility for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.
Both incidents remain under investigation.
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