SNOWMOBILE DRIVER
FOUND DAY AFTER ACCIDENT IN MICHIGAN.
HE HIT A TREE AND
WAS LYING ON THE SNOW FOR A DAY.
(Courtesy of the Ionia County Sheriff’s Office)
RONALD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) – Authorities in Ionia
County found a driver of a snowmobile Saturday who crashed and had been lying
outside in the snow overnight.
Around 12 p.m. Ionia County deputies were called to the
200 block of E. Bricker Road for a snowmobile accident that happened in a
nearby field.
Deputies later found out that the man, 48-year-old
Michael Rich, had been lying outside since Friday afternoon before he was found
by a family friend.
Rich had been driving his snowmobile when it collided
head-on with a tree in the field. He was wearing a helmet at the time of the
crash.
He was taken to the hospital where he remains in serious
condition.
The crash remains under investigation.