Drugs suspected after wrong-way driver causes head-on crash on I-94 in SW Michigan
A wrong-way driver hit a driver from Wisconsin head-on on I-94 in Kalamazoo County (Photo: MSP)
KALAMAZOO COUNTY, Mich. (FOX 2) - Police believe a Michigan man was under the influence of drugs when he drove the wrong way on I-94 and hit a pickup truck head-on Monday.
The 26-year-old Kalamazoo man was driving an Acura east in the westbound lanes of I-94 near the Lovers Lane exit in Southwest Michigan when he crashed into a Dodge pickup going the correct way at 10:13 a.m.
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Police said the at-fault driver suffered critical injuries, and it isn't clear if he was wearing a seatbelt. He is hospitalized at Bronson Hospital.
The driver of the pickup, a 29-year-old man from Appleton, Wis., was wearing a seatbelt. He suffered non-life-threatening injuries.