DETROIT, MI : 19-year-old Michigan woman, baby killed in head-on crash on Tuesday, 15th October 2024

A 19-year-old woman and a baby were killed in a head-on crash involving a semi-truck in Monroe County Tuesday morning, police said.

The crash happened at about 8:30 a.m. on S. Custer Road, east of Lewis Avenue in Raisinville Township, according to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.

An investigation showed that Journee E. Padgett, 19, of Jackson, was traveling eastbound on S. Custer Road in a 2015 Chevrolet Malibu with an infant as a rear passenger when she crossed the centerline of traffic, for an unknown reason, according to the sheriff's office.

When she crossed into the westbound lane, she struck a 2021 Western Star semi-truck head-on.


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