FERRYSBURG, MI (WHTC) – A 22-year-old Muskegon man is lodged in the Ottawa County Jail awaiting possible charges after hitting a tree in the early morning hours on Wednesday, December 7.
Ottawa County Deputies were dispatched around 3:26 a.m. to Pine Street and M-104 in Ferrysburg after a Muskegon man whose name is being withheld, was driving a 2005 Chrysler Sebring southbound on Pine Street and failed to negotiate the turn for the M-104 entrance ramp. The vehicle crossed the median went air born and then crossed the on ramp before landing in the gorge striking a tree.
Sgt. J. Douglas says a 24-year-old passenger whose name is being withheld, was pinned in the vehicle for 20 minutes then transported to Hackley Hospital in stable condition. The driver was treated at North Ottawa Community Hospital before being lodged in the Ottawa County Jail.
Alcohol was a factor in the crash which remains under investigation.
