US-41 Accident in Ishpeming Twp.
A rollover accident in Ishpeming Township snagged the evening commute on US–41 tonight.
It happened just before 5:30 tonight at the intersection with North Daisy Street.
The Marquette County Sheriff’s Department says a 30–year–old Negaunee man tried to cross the highway from the Shell station exit.
He drove into the path of an oncoming Ford Focus.
The 20–year–old Ishpeming man driving the Focus lost control, hit a signpost and came to rest in the Peninsula Bank parking lot.
The driver of the Focus was taken to the ER at Bell Hospital with non–life–threatening injuries; his car is a total loss.
The pickup truck driver was not hurt.
The accident is still under investigation tonight.
The Ishpeming Police and the Ishpeming Township Fire Department were among the agencies that helped out at the scene.