A Northville woman was critically injured Saturday afternoon after crashing her car in Oakland Township after passing other vehicles on Gunn Road, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The 77-year-old woman was taken to Henry Ford Rochester Hospital after the 5 p.m. crash, the Oakland County Sheriff\u2019s Office reported.<\/p>\n
A 12-year-old passenger, who is from Bruce Township in Macomb County, was hot hurt.<\/p>\n
Neither drugs or alcohol are suspected of being involved, but the sheriff\u2019s office said \u201cspeed is believed to be a contributing factor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Deputies were called to East Gunn Road east of Cook Court at 4:57 p.m. with a report of a single-vehicle crash with a driver trapped inside. The area is east of Rochester Road and west of Mt. Vernon Road, north of Snell Road. In the area Gunn Road curves northward with a short distance of east-west and then another southward curve.<\/p>\n
\u201cPreliminary investigation indicates a 2016 Volvo XC70 was traveling eastbound on East Gunn Road approaching a curve when the driver, a 77-year-old woman from Northville, attempted to pass other vehicles at a high rate of speed,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s office reported. \u201cAs she maneuvered around traffic, she swerved to avoid a bicyclist who was traveling westbound on East Gunn Road. The vehicle subsequently lost control, left the roadway and struck a tree.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to images on Google Maps, that portion of Gunn Road is unpaved.<\/p>\n
The trapped driver was extricated by emergency responders.<\/p>\n
The crash investigation, which is ongoing, involved the sheriff\u2019s office using a drone to provide mapping the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Northville woman was critically injured Saturday afternoon after crashing her car in Oakland Township after passing other…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[138,181,23,100,143,145,144,3414],"class_list":["post-370084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-rochester-hills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370084","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=370084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}