GIRARD TOWNSHIP, MI (WTVB) – Michigan State Police has released the name of the man who died from his injuries at Bronson Hospital in Kalamazoo following a Friday afternoon crash on Gorbell Road in Girard Township.
The victim has been identified as 80-year-old Richard Jewell of Coldwater.
State Police say his vehicle failed to navigate a 90 degree right turn at about 3:30 p.m. last Friday. It then drove straight through the curve and into a ditch before it hit a tree head on.
Jewell had to be freed by the Coldwater Fire Department.
The crash remains under investigation.
