Fatal Stanton Twp. four-wheeler accident
Police are still investigating a four-wheeler accident in Houghton County in which a man died.
The Houghton County Sheriff’s Department says the accident happened on Misery Bay Road in Stanton Township, about a half-mile west of Agate Beach Road.
At about 10 a.m. today, they found a four-wheeler overturned in a ditch that had failed to negotiate a corner.
Police say the driver, 49-year-old Jon Francis Virtanen of Toivola, had already died before they arrived.
Mercy Ambulance and Adams Township First Responders assisted at the scene.