OTTAWA COUNTY (WKZO) — A Holland man will be formally charged Tuesday with driving drunk and causing a death after he hit a man who was changing a flat tire on Interstate-196 Saturday afternoon in Hudsonville.
Richard Rish is being held on 50-thousand dollars bond.
The incident took the life of 59-year-old Bernard Langmeyer of Deerfield. Ottawa The Ottawa County Sheriff’s Department says Langmeyer’s Ford C-Max was parked far off the shoulder of the highway and OnStar had been called for help with the disabled car.
County Sheriff’s Sergeant Scott Wilber says drunk driving remains a problem.
Wilber says the department is hopeful that Langemeyer’s death is the only one they have to investigate from a drunk driver over the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
