JAMESTOWN TWP, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, June 4, 2022) – One of two persons from Grand Rapids who suffered serious injuries south of Jenison due to a two-vehicle crash on Saturday afternoon succumbed to his ailments.
According to Ottawa County Sheriff’s Lieutenant Nicholas Knott, deputies and other first responders were dispatched just after 3 PM to the intersection of 8th Avenue and Jackson Street. That was where a westbound vehicle apparently drove through a stop sign and hit a southbound vehicle, causing it to veer off of the road way, strike a utility pole and overturn.
Rescuers had to extricate a 92-year-old male passenger from that southbound vehicle, and that person – identified as Lawrence Fryling – passed away at University of Michigan Health-West in Wyoming. That was the same facility that the 66-year-old woman driving that vehicle was taken for treatment. Knott didn’t say if the apparently at-fault driver, a 38-year-old Hudsonville woman, was hurt.
The crash remains under investigation.
