Man killed after Porsche Boxster cut open in crash that injured five
TUSCOLA COUNTY, MI — Five people were injured in a weekend crash east of Reese in Tuscola County, the county sheriff’s office reports.
Emergency crews responded at about 2:52 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6, to the intersection of West Caro Road (M- 81) and Vassar Road for the report of a two-vehicle crash.
A 2000 Porsche Boxster traveling south on Vassar had stopped at the stop sign at the intersection, but then pulled into the path of a 2015 Chevrolet Equinox traveling east on M-81, according to reports from the Tuscola County Sheriff’s office.
Emergency crews used tools to cut into the Boxster, necessary to extract a 62-year-old woman in the sports car’s passenger seat.
Both the woman and the driver of the Porsche, a 67-year-old Fenton man, were injured and taken to St. Mary’s of Michigan in Saginaw by helicopter.
The driver of the Equinox, a 61-year-old woman from Caro, and both passengers of the vehicle — a 69-year-old Caro man and a 34-year-old man –all sustained minor injuries during the crash are were taken to Covenant HealthCare by ambulance, according to the sheriff’s office.
County sheriff deputies were assisted at the scene of the crash by the Michigan State Police, Vassar Police Department, Vassar firefighters, paramedics from MMR, FlightCare of Michigan and Fabbro’s Towing.
