HUDSONVILLE, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Mar. 11, 2026) – Once again, the main highway between Zeeland and Hudsonville had to be closed due to a weather-related incident.
Around 9:15 on Tuesday night, first responders were dispatched to eastbound I-196, just before the 32nd Avenue exit, on a report of a semi that was in the ditch. When they arrived, they found a 57-year-old Muskegon man, apparently unhurt, standing outside of his fallen rig.
The unnamed trucker told authorities that he was pulling an empty trailer when heavy winds pushed the trailer, causing it and the cab to veer into the ditch. No other vehicles were apparently involved.
Deputies had to close the eastbound lanes of the freeway at the Byron Road exit several miles away, in order to divert traffic while crews worked to get the semi out of its predicament. Matters were taken care of shortly before 12 Midnight.
On the weekend of January 17-19, the freeway was closed three times due to weather-related crashes, the most serious of which came on January 19th, when several persons were hospitalized in a 100-plus vehicle pileup near the 64th Avenue overpass.
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