OVERISEL TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- An accident reconstruction team is investigating a fatal crash this morning in Overisel Township, north of Hamilton.
The Allegan County Sheriff's Office tells WOOD Radio it happened when a car went through a stop sign at 46th Street and 140th Avenue a little before 7 o'clock Tuesday morning. It was broadsided by an SUV.
Police said the man driving the car was declared dead at the scene. He was 23 and from the Hamilton area.
Sergeant John Damveld told WOOD Radio it appears that speed played a role in the crash. He says the the road commission will check to see if fog or the visibility of the stop sign were also factors in the crash.
"But the biggest think we come out here for the reconstruction is to find out what speeds the vehicles were going, and what was happening inside the vehicle or during the time that the accident or impact had taken place," Damveld said.
The 30-year-old Byron Center woman who was driving the SUV was taken to a hospital with unspecified injuries. No names had been released as of time of publication early Tuesday afternoon.
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