OTTAWA COUNTY (WHTC-AM/FM) — A Spring Lake crash yesterday at 168th Avenue, just south of Vanwagoner Road resulted in minor injuries for two people.
Ottawa County Sheriff’s Sgt. Christie Wendt indicated a 22-year-old Spring Lake woman was driving a Hyundai east on Vanwagoner Road. She stopped at the stop sign and was turning north onto 168th when her Hyundai was hit by a Ford Fusion, with an 87-year-old Spring Lake man at the wheel.
He did not stop for the stop sign, Wendt said.
The crash sent the Hyundai into a ditch. The Fusion continued south for several hundred feet, rolling off the west side of the road and hitting a utility pole, which fell, taking out electric lines. across 168th Avenue. Each driver had non-life-threatening injuries, Wendt said, with the Spring Lake man going to North Ottawa Community Hospital for treatment and the woman seeking her own care.
Police closed the road for an hour for the safety of utility workers making line repairs.
