Sturgis,MI : Several killed in weekend accidents on September, Sunday 3rd 2017

Labor Day weekend accidents claimed the lives of several in the area. A 29-year-old White Pigeon man was killed in a two-vehicle crash Sunday night in Elkhart County, Ind. WSBT reports Austin James Hersha was pronounced dead at the scene of an 8:30 p.m. crash at the intersection of CR 23 and CR 104, just north of Bristol, Ind. WSBT reported Hersha was riding a motorcycle when it collided with a SUV. No other details were available. In Cass County, the sheriff’s department is investigating a fatal crash in the 20000 block of Old 205 in Mason Township about 7 p.m. Sunday that claimed the life of a 2-year old. Police said the family was having a birthday party at the home, when family member Betty Utt, 64, of Elkhart, Ind., was pulling into the driveway and struck Nayla Ryans of Elkhart, Ind. Family members began CPR until rescue personnel arrived. The child was taken to Memorial Hospital in South Bend, where the child was pronounced dead. Assisting were Porter Township Fire Department, Porter Township Ambulance and Edwardsburg Ambulance. The incident remains under investigation. A Michigan pastor says five people killed in a fiery, high-speed crash in Kalamazoo Township are believed to have all been teenagers. Strick Strickland is pastor of the Second Baptist Church and leader of the Kalamazoo area NAACP office. He says it’s his understanding that all the occupants of the car that crashed early Saturday were teens. Police have not identified the five victims. But Strickland says he mentored one of them and he was a teen who attended an alternative school and played football. He called the deadly crash “extremely tragic” and difficult to comprehend. Kalamazoo Township police said the five victims were riding in a Dodge Charger that was traveling about 100 mph when it crashed into a tree and burst into flames about 1 a.m. Saturday. An officer who spotted the speeding car turned on his lights and sirens but soon turned them off because of safety concerns. But a short time later, that officer spotted the crashed car engulfed in flames along the side of the road near an intersection.




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Several killed in weekend accidents