GUN PLAIN TOWNSHIP, Mich. — One person is dead and another is hurt after a crash in Gun Plain Township early Wednesday morning.
The crash happened before 6:15 a.m. on southbound US-131 near mile marker 48, according to the Allegan County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO).
We’re told a disabled SUV was sitting on the shoulder when a pickup truck hit it.
Two people were outside the disabled car trying to repair it. Deputies say one of them was killed. The other was hospitalized with serious injuries.
The pickup driver was unharmed but was placed under arrest, ACSO explains.
The sheriff’s office tells us the freeway was shut down for a time but was subsequently reopened.
The crash is currently under investigation.
ACSO credits dispatchers, Michigan State Police, the Otsego Police Department, the Plainwell Department of Public Safety, the Gun Plain Fire Department, the Michigan Department of Transportation, and Plainwell EMS for their assistance.
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