A local man died after rear-ending the trailer of a semi-truck stopped on the highway in Saugatuck Township on June 15, according to a release from the Michigan State Police.
MSP Wayland Post troopers responded to the two-vehicle crash on northbound I-196, near 68th Street, around 1 p.m.
MSP wrote the victim was an 82-year-old Holland man, who’d rear-ended a semi tractor-trailer that had stopped due to traffic congestion. The man, who was wearing a seatbelt, was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the semi was uninjured.
The investigation remains ongoing, though alcohol and drugs aren’t believed to be factors in the crash.
— Contact reporter Mitchell Boatman at mboatman@hollandsentinel.com.
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