5/8/14 - Two local women, one of them in her third trimester, were sent to the hospital after a head-on crash in Howell Township last night. At about 6:30pm, emergency crews were called to the scene of the accident along M-59 near Durant Road. Undersheriff Mike Murphy says a 34-year-old Brighton woman in a Chevy Malibu was traveling westbound in an eastbound lane of M-59 when she struck a Saturn driven by a 29-year-old Howell woman. Both women suffered significant injuries, but their status is currently unknown. The at-fault driver was taken by Survival Flight to the University of Michigan Hospital, while the driver of the Saturn, who is seven months pregnant, was transported to the hospital by Livingston County EMS. The status of her child is also unknown. Murphy says the pregnant woman was wearing a seat belt but the at-fault driver was not. The investigation into the crash is ongoing, and it is not known at this time whether drugs or alcohol played a factor in the crash. It took cleanup crews more than two hours to fully reopen local roads. (TD)
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