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State police: 2 dead, 1 hospitalized after pickup hits semi head-on

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CONSTANTINE TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Michigan State Police say two people died Thursday when a pickup truck crashed head-on with a semi-truck in St. Joseph County.

Troopers responded to the crash on US-131 near Youngs Prairie Road in Constantine Township.

They say a pickup truck crossed the centerline and hit a semi-truck with a trailer head-on.

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The driver and passenger of the pickup died at the scene. They have been identified as a father and son from Middlebury, Indiana: 58-year-old Albert Richard Fields Jr. and 15-year-old Albert R. Fields III.

Emergency crews took the semi driver to the hospital to be treated for injuries.

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State police are still investigating, but say drug and alcohol use are not believed to be factors in the crash.

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