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Jan 15, 2021 BATES TOWNSHIP An Iron County Road Commission employee was struck and killed Wednesday while he was working in a construction zone. Troopers from the Michigan State Police, Iron Mountain Post, responded to a two-vehicle personal injury crash on January 13, 2021, at approximately 2:14 p.m. on Bates-Amasa Road near Shady Lane, in Iron County’s Bates Township. The investigation determined that a 57-year-old male from Newald, Wis., operating a 2005 Ford Ranger pickup, failed to stop in a marked work zone, striking an Iron County Road Commission employee performing duties as a flagger. The road commission employee was pinned between the driver’s vehicle and the road commission vehicle next to the employee, and suffered fatal injuries. ....