Passenger dies in one-car crash into ditch in Riga Township
From Staff Reports
RIGA TWP. A passenger died Sunday afternoon in a single-vehicle crash southeast of Blissfield.
Lenawee County sheriff s deputies were dispatched at 4:32 p.m. to an injury crash along Lipp Highway south of Ottawa Lake Road in Riga Township, a news release from the sheriff s office said. Deputies reported a 48-year-old man from Blissfield was driving a 2003 Lexus convertible southbound on Lipp and lost control of the car on the gravel roadway, causing it to go off the road and into a large ditch.
The passenger, a 78-year-old man from Blissfield, was pronounced dead at the scene, deputies said. The driver was transported to ProMedica Toledo Hospital with serious injuries. He is listed in stable condition.
By Bob Wessel
A trip from Petersburg to Blissfield is measured in minutes today. This was not the case when George Giles made the trip in 1826.
Giles was obliged to cut a 13-mile-long road through the wilderness and wetlands along the River Raisin to reach his new home in Blissfield.
Anyone looking across the lower eastern part of Lenawee County over the land between the River Raisin and the Ohio state line would never know that this flat picturesque area did not start out as the rich and productive farmland we see today. This land was once an untamed swamp, home to a wide range of wildlife and providing a fertile hunting ground for native Americans and newly arriving white settlers.
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