VAN BUREN COUNTY (WKZO) — There were over four dozen wrecks in Van Buren County over the weekend due to the icy roads. This is just four of them.
Van Buren County Deputies responded to a pair of pick-up trucks that slid off 30th Street about a mile a part Saturday night within minutes of each other.
19-year-old Travis Vanderveen was treated and released at Bronson Hospital in Kalamazoo after he suffered minor neck and chest injuries when his Ford Ranger slid off the icy roadway and hit a tree near 48th St.
While Deputies were investigating that crash, they got word that another 19-year-old in an F-250 Super-duty Pickup slid off 30th near C.R. 653, sliding sideways into a tree. The second driver was not injured but the truck was totaled.
Van Buren Deputies are also blaming icy road surfaces for a pair of Sunday Morning rollover crashes that could have been a lot worse.
Deputies say a 30-year-old driver who was 9-months pregnant rolled her Chrysler Mini-van on 92nd Avenue after hitting an icy patch and losing control.
A male passenger had to be extricated and was rushed to Bronson complaining of head and leg pain, but a 3 year old in a child restraint seat was okay.
The pregnant driver also went to the hospital as a precaution.
About three hours earlier Sunday morning, a 22-year-old woman lost control of her Hyundai, and rolled it over on Red Arrow Highway near Hartford. She had to be pried out of the wreck but was not injured.
