A Marlette man is dead and another injured following a collision in Sherman Township last Friday, July 8, on M-25, south of Atwater Road.
Responding to the scene around 6: 15 p.m. on Friday were Huron County Sheriff deputies, as well as the Harbor Beach Police and Sherman Township Fire Department. Sheriff Kelly Hanson said in a press release that the investigation is ongoing, with events still being put together, but at present, it appears that a 2012 Buick Enclave, driven by Benjamin Gusa, age 30 of Harbor Beach, was headed northbound on a curved part of the roadway when he collided with the side of a ’99 Saturn, driven by 67-year-old Vincent Bechard of Marlette.
Bechard was fatally wounded in the crash, but his passenger, 62-year-old Peter Kreiner, also of Marlette, was only seriously injured, with Gusa reporting minor injuries. Kreiner was first taken to the Harbor Beach Hospital by Eastern Huron Ambulance before later being flown out of county for specialized treatment.
With the accident happening on a curved part of the highway, and with witnesses to some, but not all, of the event, deputies are struggling to determine if the Saturn had just pulled onto the road when the crash happened, or if the Saturn was doing a U-Turn at the time.
