Reports say potholes not to blame in double fatal crash - Detroit Free Press
Worn tires, not potholes, were responsible for a crash that killed a New Hudson man and his 9-year-old son in January, according to the Oakland County Sheriff's Office. Documents obtained by the Free Press through a Freedom of Information Act request show that four potholes, including one measuring 4. 3 feet by 13. 6 feet, were east of the crash scene on westbound Pontiac Trail in Lyon Township but that... Related: Hear a 911 recording after the fatal crash. The crash killed Pedro Montanez Jr. , 36, and his son, Steven, and injured Montanez's two other children, a 10-year-old boy and 6-year-old girl. Montanez was taking the children to school at Kent Lake Elementary School when he lost control of his 2005 Mazda 3, the reports say. The car crossed into the path of an oncoming 1994 Ford F Super Duty dump truck hauling a landscape trailer driven by a 25-year-old Farmington Hills man, according to the reports. The truck broadsided the car, both vehicles went off the road and the Mazda struck a tree before stopping. Related: Alcohol found in car in fatal Stony Creek crash. The crash trapped two of the children — who were all either belted in or in a booster seat — until rescue workers arrived. Source: www.freep.com
