OTTAWA COUNTY (WHTC-AM/FM) — A two-vehicle crash in Allendale just after 5:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018, sent three people to the hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries, according to Ottawa County Sheriff’s Sgt. Matt Wildfong.
Ottawa County Sheriff’s deputies were called to Fillmore Street and 68th Avenue where two cars were blocking the road — and witnesses were telling police dispatchers that more cars were sliding into crash scene, but that turned out to be inaccurate, Wildfong said.
The crash happened, he said, when Muskegon resident Abel Gomez, 45, at the wheel of a 2012 Ford Fusion, stopped at the sign on southbound 68th Avenue at the Fillmore intersection, then proceeded driving again.
But he drove into the path of a 2014 Chevvy Silverado, being driven by Allendale resident Steven Woodworth, 52, who had been westbound on Fillmore. Wildfong said Woodworth hadn’t enough time to stop and avert the crash.
Gomez, Woodworth, and Woodworth’s wife Pamela, 51, who’s been in the Silverado’s front passenger seat, had been wearing seatbelts. They all suffered non-life-threatening injuries and were treated at a nearby hospital, Wildfong said.
Allendale Fire and Rescue and Life Ambulance assisted Ottawa County Sheriff’s deputies at the scene, and Fillmore Street was reduced to a single lane of traffic for emergency responders safety during the crash response and clean-up.
