GRANT TOWNSHIP, Mich. (via WOOD TV) — An eighth-grader from Montague Middle School is dead and her father is critically injured after being hit by a farm truck in Oceana County.
It happened around 9:40 p.m. Monday on Webster Road, west of 72nd Avenue in Grant Township.
Authorities say a farm truck being driven by a 57-year-old Rothbury man hit the pair while they were walking their dog on the shoulder of the road.
Officials say 14-year-old Kaitlynn Scott died at the scene. Her father, Eric Scott, was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
"Surgery was performed overnight. We're told that he's in critical but stable condition at this point," said 1st Lt. Jeffrey White of the Michigan State Police Hart Post.
State police are now trying to figure out exactly why the crash happened. They’re inspecting the six-wheel truck and its equipment.
They don't believe the driver had been drinking or was on drugs, but detectives took his blood nonetheless and seized his cellphone as potential evidence.
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