{"id":413106,"date":"2026-07-26T19:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T19:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/413106\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T19:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T19:32:08","slug":"80-year-old-shelby-township-man-killed-after-losing-control-of-off-road-vehicle-in-oakland-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/413106\/","title":{"rendered":"80-year-old Shelby Township man killed after losing control of off-road vehicle in Oakland County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2736e4c1-3f131cad-c7df5d5c-sher6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HOLLY, Mich. (FOX 2) &#8211; An 80-year-old Shelby Township man died Saturday after an off-road vehicle crash at Holly Oaks ORV Park, according to the Oakland County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WJBK\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The crash occurred sometime between approximately 11:45 a.m. and 2:16 p.m., authorities said.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WJBK\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A preliminary investigation found the man was operating a 2022 Can-Am Outlander on the park&#8217;s trail system near the crest of a hill. As he descended the hill, he lost control of the ORV, causing it to overturn and ejecting him from the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The man came to rest in a crevice on the hillside, while the ORV continued downhill before coming to a stop further below.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Investigators said the man was wearing a helmet at the time of the crash. Drugs and alcohol are not believed to have been factors.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WJBK\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Authorities said it is unknown how much time passed between the crash and when it was discovered and reported by another park patron.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WJBK\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information came from the Oakland County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/tag\/traffic\/crashes\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Car crashes<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/tag\/us\/mi\/oakland-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article HOLLY, Mich. (FOX 2) &#8211; An 80-year-old Shelby Township man died Saturday after an off-road vehicle crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1826,249,100,143,904,145,144,821,1181],"class_list":["post-413106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-crashes","tag-mi","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-traffic","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413106","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=413106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}