WOOD-TV reports that a Van Buren County, Michigan, road crew worker was killed in a crash in a construction zone northwest of Lawrence Friday morning.
It happened on County Road 681 between 44th and 48th avenues. Michigan State Police (MSP) said the driver of a pickup truck ignored signs to stop, rear-ended another vehicle while trying to pass, and hit the worker, who was manning a traffic control sign.
MSP said drugs are believed to be involved but Lt. DuWayne Robinson said no arrests were made.
“We don’t know what drugs are involved, but we just believe that it is a factor,” Robinson said. “Our investigators are working on confirming those facts, on getting lab work and analysis to further … confirm our suspicion and then we’ll move forward with an investigation of traffic violation causing death.”
Neither the driver of the pickup, a 30-year-old Hartford man, nor the person in the other car were injured.
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Source: WOOD-TV
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Frank Raczon has influenced and covered the equipment industry for 35 years, including 15 years as senior editor of Construction Equipment, and marketing, advertising, and public relations work for the industry's top manufacturers. He authored "Caterpillar: Modern Earthmoving Marvels" (Motorbooks, 2015), and has won numerous awards in his career, highlighted by nods from the Construction Writers Association, the Association of Equipment Manufacturers, the Business Marketing Association, and BtoB magazine. Raczon has also won awards from publishing peer groups such as ASBPE and TABPI.
