ZEELAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – An effort to financially support a 36-year-old Zeeland mother seriously injured in a crash with a gravel hauler earlier this week is underway.
A Go Fund Me page was established on Friday for the woman identified only as “Kate.” She was driving on 96th Avenue near Polk Street in Olive Township on Monday morning when her sedan collided with the truck that had swerved into her lane to avoid slamming into a line of stopped vehicles ahead.
While her two children, aged 4 and 2, were treated at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital and are expected to recover from their ailments, Kate, according to Christopher Tanner who set up the fundraising page, “sustained many injuries that required her to be excavated to the hospital via Air-Med, and she has had multiple surgeries over the course of the last 4 days.” She is “doing well and in good spirits,” but “has a very, very long road ahead of her for her recovery” and “we are working hard to make sure that the family does not lose their house and their children get the best care they can.”
Tanner added that “all proceeds will go to helping to cover any cost for babysitting, food for the family, as well as bills they may get behind on due to Kate and (her husband) Travis missing work.”
The 65-year-old South Haven man driving the gravel hauler was not hurt in the crash, which remains under investigation by the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Department.
