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Truck driver seriously Injured in crash on US-23 Tuesday
The accident happened about 11:05 a.m. Tuesday, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.
A preliminary investigation by sheriff’s deputies revealed the man was driving a 2016 Mack concrete truck northbound when it rear ended the flatbed trailer of a 2015 Freightliner semi-truck that was slowing down for stopped traffic due to another crash that had occurred earlier on the northbound side. After the initial crash, the Mack truck ran off the roadway and overturned, the sheriff’s office said in a press release. The operator of the Mack truck was airlifted to a Toledo, Ohio, hospital by Mercy Life Flight.
Canton couple killed in N. Dixie traffic accident
An elderly couple from Canton died from injuries suffered in a traffic accident early Wednesday morning on N. Dixie Highway near the entrance of Sterling State Park.
The victims were identified as Larimore Clifford McDougall, 85, who was pronounced dead at the scene. His wife, 85-year-old Marilyn Ann McDougall, was pronounced dead after being transported by Monroe County Ambulance to Beaumont Hospital in Trenton, according to a press release from the Monroe County Sheriff s Office.
The accident occurred around 5:23 a.m. Deputies said Mr. McDougall was driving the couple s 2017 Hyundai Sonata, and his wife was in the front seat passenger. Deputies said Mr. McDougall exiting the state park and attempting to turn left onto N. Dixie when when their car was struck on the driver s side by a 2011 GMC Sierra pickup truck. The pickup was traveling northbound and being driven by 55-year-old Debra Ann Lewis of Monroe.
The victim was Lance H. Pittman Jr., 33, of Ypsilanti.
The accident happened on northbound US-23, south of Consear Road, which is Exit 3, in Whiteford Township.
According to reports, Pittman was driving a black Hyundai Tiburon northbound on the highway when, for unknown reasons, the Hyundai came to a stop on the shoulder of the freeway.
Then the Hyundai started to travel in reverse, southbound on the northbound shoulder, and entered the right lane of travel, reports said.
At that point, the car was struck by a gray 2010 Ford Expedition that Ervin Evans, age 52, of Adrian, was driving northbound in the right lane of US-23.
WHITEFORD TOWNSHIP An Ypsilanti man died as a result of his injuries following a two-vehicle crash Thursday in Whiteford Township, the Monroe County Sheriff s Office reported.
The accident happened about 6:50 p.m. on northbound US-23, south of Consear Road, which is Exit 3.
According to the report, the 33-year-old Ypsilanti man was driving a black Hyundai Tiburon northbound on the highway when, for unknown reasons, the Hyundai came to a stop on the shoulder of the freeway.
Then the Hyundai started to travel in reverse, southbound on the northbound shoulder, and entered the right lane of travel, reports said.
At that point, a 52-year-old Adrian man was driving a gray 2010 Ford Expedition northbound in the right lane of US-23, according to reports.