POLKTON TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – An apparent case of distracted driving by a motorist between Nunica and Coopersville led to a three-year-old Comstock Park girl spending Saturday night on a hospital bed.
According to Ottawa County Sheriff’s Sergeant Christopher Dill, first responders were dispatched to eastbound I-96 near the 13 mile marker just after 6:30 PM on a report of a two-vehicle crash. “Preliminary investigation at the scene revealed that a 27-year-old female from Indiana was driving her Hyundai Elantra eastbound at approximately 70 mph,” Dill said, and as the woman “was looking down at her cellular phone navigation, she rear-ended a Toyota Prius, driven by a 36-year-old male from Comstock Park, that had slowed for a traffic backup due to a road construction lane closure.”
The girl in the Toyota was taken to Spectrum-Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital for treatment of a broken leg, while her driver was not hurt, and the apparent at-fault motorist was treated by first responders at the scene for a hand injury.
No names were immediately disclosed, but Dill did add that all three persons involved were buckled up at the time, and that eastbound I-96 was briefly closed at the scene as a result of a crash, which remains under investigation.
