VAN BUREN COUNTY (WKZO AM/FM) — For the second day in a row, a chain reaction collision on an area freeway has claimed the life of an elderly resident of Kalamazoo.
Police and emergency responders from Van Buren and Kalamazoo County responded to a 30-car pile-up on I-94 near the 66 mile marker just after 9 a.m. Wednesday involving passenger vehicles and tractor-trailer rigs.
They found one driver, an 89-year-old from Kalamazoo County who was fatally injured.
His name has not been released, and neither have the circumstances of his death.
It remains under investigation.
Tuesday 65-year-old Evert-Jan Ohler of Kalamazoo was killed when he struck the back of a school bus that had slowed on U.S. 131 due to slide offs and crashes.
(copy written by John McNeill)
