{"id":412137,"date":"2026-07-25T17:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T17:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/412137\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T17:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T17:25:08","slug":"1-killed-2-seriously-injured-in-head-on-crash-in-oakland-county-sheriffs-office-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/412137\/","title":{"rendered":"1 killed, 2 seriously injured in head-on crash in Oakland County, sheriff&#8217;s office says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 65-year-old man is dead and two women are seriously injured after a head-on crash in Oakland Township, Michigan, on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Oakland County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said\u00a0the incident happened on Rochester Road, near Buell Road, around 5:48 a.m. Investigators said the man, from Rochester Hills, Michigan, was driving a 2022 Ford Escape northbound on Rochester Road when the vehicle crossed the centerline and collided head-on with a 2025 Subaru Outback in the southbound lane.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office is working to learn why the Ford crossed the centerline. Investigators say they &#8220;do not believe the crash was the result of a medical emergency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, the man died at the scene. A 49-year-old Imlay City, Michigan, woman, who was driving the Subaru, and her passenger, a 56-year-old Almont, Michigan, woman, were taken to the hospital, where they were in critical condition on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The man&#8217;s identity is being withheld until his family is notified of the incident, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>As of Saturday, the investigation into the crash is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 65-year-old man is dead and two women are seriously injured after a head-on crash in Oakland Township,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[3297,8296,143,904,46856,145,144],"class_list":["post-412137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-car-crash","tag-fatal-crash","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county","tag-oakland-county-sheriff039s-office","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412137","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=412137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}