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Spring Lake crash between car and biker leaves biker with non-life threatening injuries

Posted at 5:39 PM, May 29, 2020
and last updated 2020-05-29 17:40:22-04

SPRING LAKE, Mich. — One biker was left with non-life threatening injuries after a collision with a vehicle.

Friday around 4 p.m., the Ottawa County Sheriff's Office responded to a car vs bike personal injury traffic crash on N. Fruitport Rd at Central Ave.

Investigation showed that a bicyclist was riding westbound on the bike path and stopped at N. Fruitport Rd.

He proceeded to cross N. Fruitport Rd and peddled in front of the path of a northbound vehicle.

The vehicle could not avoid the collision and struck the bicyclist.

The bicyclist a 65-year-old Spring Lake resident was transported to North Ottawa Community Health Services with non life threatening injuries.

The vehicle operator was not injured in the crash.