MASON COUNTY - The Mason County Sheriff’s Office said that a person was killed in a crash on Friday.
At 8:21 p.m., on Friday, Nov. 8, emergency crews received an On Star notification of a vehicle crash on Fountain Road east of Larson Road in Mason County’s Sheridan Township.
Responding deputies found a 2023 Chevy Colorado pickup truck crashed into a tree and the driver, the lone occupant of the vehicle, deceased, deputies said. The victim was trapped inside the vehicle, they said.
Preliminary findings indicate the vehicle was eastbound on Fountain Road and failed to negotiate a curve east of Larson Road, deputies said. The vehicle then left the road, traveled through a ditch and struck a tree.
The driver, who is only being identified as an 87-year-old man from Hudsonville, was pronounced dead at the scene, deputies said.
Fountain Area Fire & Rescue and Life EMS assisted deputies at the scene.