CASS COUNTY, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — Police are investigating a single-vehicle fatal accident that happened in Cass County on Friday, October 22.
Deputies responded to Dixon Street east of Indian Lake Road for a report of a car into a tree around 10 p.m.
On scene, deputies found that a 2004 Chevy Truck, driven by 18-year-old Maynor Hernandez of Dowagiac, was traveling east on Dixon Street when he lost control of his vehicle, went off the roadway, overturned and struck a tree.
Hernandez was pronounced dead at the scene.
While it is not known at this time if drugs and alcohol were factors, investigators determined that he was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash.
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