Accident

Please, I beg you - do not text and drive, do not dial your phone and drive.

Call me crazy but I didn't realize that you can get a ticket for swerving to avoid an animal.

A Saginaw woman died after crashing into a tree with her car. The accident and her death are being investigated as a homicide.

The accident happened late Tuesday in Ypsilanti Township. The 57-year-old man died after hitting a deer and then being run over by a car.

Earlier today in Davison Township, the Lapeer County sheriff was involved in a deadly vehicle accident. Sheriff Ron Kaloquin was traveling into Genesee County in his cruiser and collided with a mini-van on Davison Road.

A North Branch man is now dead after a head-on collision in Lapeer County yesterday. The accident happened on Burnside Road in Brown City around 10 a.m.

Tragedy struck Shiawassee County yesterday when a woman collided with a westbound train. The accident happened on Beardlee Road between Bath and Beard Road just before 11 p.m. last night.

Is it me or does there seem to be an unusually high number of motorcycle accidents lately? Regrettably we have another one to report. A three term Michigan lawmaker, Rep. Peter Pettalia was killed while riding on M-33 South in Montmorency County.

There are no words to describe how horrible and senseless these deaths are. Yesterday in Cooper Township, near Kalamazoo, five cyclists were killed by a 50-year-old man driving a pickup. Four other cyclists were injured.

A 28-year-old Lapeer man who fell off his motorcycle on Parkway Street last Sunday evening has died from his injuries.

Deputy Dustin Boyton escaped serious injury last week after being struck by a car while he was investigating an incident on foot. He was walking on the on the side of Maple Grove Road when a vehicle turned off of Imlay City Road and hit the deputy with the right side of the vehicle.

I was horrified when I saw this over the weekend. People were enjoying a fireworks display when something went horribly wrong.