An 87-year-old man was injured and trapped in his car during a two-vehicle crash in front of a Walmart in Oakland County, Michigan.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The crash happened about 7:15 a.m. Tuesday in the 3000 block of Pontiac Trail in Commerce Township.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office, which is investigating, said a semi-truck was in the process of exiting the Walmart parking lot onto Pontiac Trail, when a westbound Chevrolet Malibu struck the rear section of the trailer. As a result of the impact, the car driver was pinned inside his vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Commerce Township Fire Department responded to the scene and freed the 87-year-old man from the wreckage. He was taken to Henry Ford Providence Novi Hospital. Deputies said his injuries are believed to be minor. The truck driver was not injured.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The truck driver was issued a citation in connection with the collision, deputies said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The crash remains under investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office reminds motorists to exercise caution near commercial driveways and intersections, particularly when large commercial vehicles are entering or exiting roadways,” the report said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 87-year-old man was injured and trapped in his car during a two-vehicle crash in front of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[3297,35269,143,904,46856,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-113817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-car-crash","9":"tag-commerce-township","10":"tag-oakland","11":"tag-oakland-county","12":"tag-oakland-county-sheriff039s-office","13":"tag-oakland-headlines","14":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}