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2 hospitalized after I-96 crash near Coopersville

Posted at 1:42 PM, Jun 27, 2016
and last updated 2016-06-27 16:41:05-04

POLKTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. –  I-96 has reopened after a serious crash near Coopersville.

The one-vehicle crash happened in the eastbound lanes at about 1:20 p.m. about a mile east of 68th Avenue.

The Ottawa County Sheriff’s Department says that a 2003 Ford Explorer driven by a 21-year-old man drifted into the median and then back across both eastbound lanes.   The vehicle then struck a tree head on.

The driver and another person in the vehicle were pinned in and had to be extricated.   They were both air lifted to the hospital.

Eastbound I-96 was closed for roughly two hours.   The westbound lanes were closed briefly to accommodate the Aero Med helicopter’s landing.