Willow Yon News Today

More than 120,000 cars drive US-131 in Grand Rapids each day. It’s the busiest highway in Michigan outside of Detroit. However, that volume sometimes brings problems like wrong-way crashes.

The family of Willow Yon, who died in a wrong-way crash in 2022, want the Michigan Department of Transportation to take steps to increase safety after another fatal wrong-way crash happened on Sunday.

The father of Willow Yon, who was killed in 2022 in a wrong-way crash on US-131, said more must be done to prevent wrong-way crashes.

Ashley Rodriguez-Hernandez was sentenced to three-and-a-half years to no more than 15 years in prison for the crash that killed art student Willow Yon.

A Grand Rapids woman learned her fate in a Kent County courthouse today after admitting to driving drunk and ultimately killing 21-year-old art student Willow Yon.

The woman accused of killing a 21-year-old Grand Rapids student in a car crash has pleaded guilty in court.

Willow Yon, 21, was killed in a crash on northbound US-131 in March when a car traveling the wrong direction on the freeway hit her head-on.

Willow Rose Yon remembered

Family members have identified 21-year-old Willow Yon as the victim of the fatal wrong-way accident on US-131 Sunday morning.