1/24/14 - A local teacher and head football coach sustained serious injuries in an accident involving multiple vehicles Thursday. Deputies with the Livingston County Sheriffâs Department were called out at approximately 4:45pm Thursday to the crash on D-19, south of Keddle Road in Marion Township. Pinckneyâs head varsity football coach and high school Chemistry teacher, 31-year-old Jakob Gailitis of Howell, was traveling northbound on D-19 when the accident happened. Undersheriff Mike Murphy tells WHMI he had failed to stop for slowing traffic and struck a vehicle, which sent his vehicle into the southbound lane where he consequently struck another vehicle head-on. As he lost control, Murphy says he ended up hitting a fourth vehicle. Murphy says he was hospitalized with pretty significant injuries and had to be extricated from the vehicle because his leg was entrapped. Pinckneyâs Athletic Director Ted Bradley says Gailitis sustained injuries to his pelvis and dislocated hips but is healing and doing well. A University of Michigan Hospital spokeswoman told WHMI that he was listed in fair condition as of late Friday afternoon. The Sheriff's Department was assisted at the scene by Livingston County EMS and the Howell Area Fire Department. (JM)
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