Jan 15, 2021
IRON MOUNTAIN An Iron County Road Commission employee died in a two-vehicle accident on Wednesday in Bates Township in Iron County.
The Michigan State Police Iron Post said troopers responded to the two-vehicle crash at about 2:14 p.m. on Bates-Amasa Road near Shady Lane. The investigation determined that a 57-year-old male from Newald, Wisconsin, operating a 2005 Ford Ranger pickup, failed to stop in a marked work zone.
He struck a road commission employee performing duties as a flagger, pinning him between the driver’s vehicle and the road commission vehicle next to the employee. The employee suffered fatal injuries at the scene.
BATES TOWNSHIP, MI An Iron County Road Commission worker was killed while working in Bates Township Wednesday.
Michigan State Police from the Iron Mountain Post were dispatched around 2:15 p.m. to Bates-Amasa Road near Shady Lane. They say a 57-year-old Wisconsin man in a pickup failed to stop in a marked work zone. He hit a road commission flagger, pinning him between his truck and a road commission vehicle.
The flagger died at the scene. The driver of the pickup was taken to Aspirus Hospital in Iron River and later airlifted to Wausau, Wisconsin for further treatment.
Alcohol is not believed to be a factor in the crash. Names have not been released pending notification of next of kin.
Michigan is now in Phase 1B for COVID-19 vaccinations.
This means people 65 and older and essential frontline workers are eligible to get the vaccine.
For now, those in the latter group are being asked to go through their county Health Department.
Aspirus is helping vaccinate those in the 65 and older group.
Jessica Bessner is the Aspirus Regional Director of Pharmacy for the Upper Peninsula.
She says for right now the waitlist is open for people in live in Upper Peninsula Counties where an Aspirus Hospital or clinic is located.
“We understand we cross several counties, and we may cross a little bit of a state line in some of our bordering towns so we’re able to serve our patients if they seek care at our facilities, would be able to serve them but we don’t want this to be a county shopping type of a process,” Bessner.
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