1 person was critically injured after being hit by a vehicle along 28th street
KENT COUNTY, Mich. — A man visiting from overseas has been hospitalized with critical injuries, after he was hit by a car on one of West Michigan’s busiest streets.
Kent County Sheriff’s Deputies closed a section of 28th Street near the Cascade Meijer following a crash involving a pedestrian Thursday evening.
It happened just after 9:00 p.m. Deputies say that Guoyong Xu, a 37-year-old man from Beijing, was walking with a friend in the travel lane of 28th Street when he was hit by a car.
Xu was taken to Spectrum Butterworth with critical, life-threatening injuries. His family is flying from China to visit him.
The other person walking with Xu was not hit.
Xu was in Grand Rapids for a business conference in Grand Rapids.
The preliminary investigation reveals the driver may not have seen the two people walking in the road. There were no injuries reported for the driver.
