Grand Rapids motorcyclist killed following Friday night crash
Fortier was not wearing a helmet and was transported to Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital with life-threatening injuries, where he later died.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. A Grand Rapids man died this morning after a serious crash Friday evening.
Jacob Fortier, 45, was riding a Harley Davidson motorcycle when a Dodge Durango driven by a 39-year-old Rockford woman failed to yield, police say. Fortier had been driving southbound on Plainfield Avenue and the Durango driver was turning left onto the entrance ramp to westbound I-96 when they collided, according to police.
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Saranac man taken to hospital after Boston Township crash
Sentinel Staff
BOSTON TWP. A 93-year-old Saranac man was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after a crash with a large farm vehicle Wednesday in Boston Township, according to the Ionia County Sheriff’s Office.
The Ionia County Sheriff’s Office and Saranac Community Fire Department responded to the crash at 11:15 a.m. Wednesday, April 14, at the intersection of West Grand River Avenue and Morrison Lake Road.
Police say the Saranac man was traveling south and failed to yield to a large farm vehicle heading east. He was taken to Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids.
Three injured when pickup strikes Ottawa County tree
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Three people were injured, with one in critical condition, after a pickup struck a tree on Port Sheldon Street in Olive TownshipMLive file photo
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The crash was reported about 4 pm. on Port Sheldon Street just east of 128th Avenue.
Ottawa County sheriff’s deputies said a 74-year-old Holland man was driving the truck west on Port Sheldon Street when it went off the road and struck a tree.
The driver and two passengers were pinned in the truck and had to be removed from the wreckage by Olive Township firefighters.
Two Holland women seriously injured in Olive Township crash
Sentinel Staff
OLIVE TWP. Two passengers in a 2002 Chevrolet Silverado were taken to area hospitals following a single-vehicle crash Friday on Port Sheldon Street.
One of the passengers, a 68-year-old Holland woman, is in critical condition at Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital. The other passenger, a 40-year-old Holland woman, is in serious condition at Holland Hospital.
The crash happened at 3:57 p.m. Friday, April 9, on Port Sheldon Street, east of 128th Avenue.
The preliminary investigation by the Ottawa County Sheriff s Office determined the Chevrolet was traveling westbound on Port Sheldon Street when the driver, a 74-year-old Holland man, drove off the roadway and crashed into a tree.