JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP, MI (WTVB) – Two Osseo residents were injured Thursday afternoon after the driver of a vehicle fell asleep at the wheel and crashed into a tree.
According to the Hillsdale County Sheriff’s Department, 19-year-old Montana James Northrup was heading west on East Reading Road east of South Lake Pleasant Road at about 2:20 p.m. when Northrup fell asleep, his vehicle crossed the centerline, left the road, and hit a tree.
Northrup and a passenger, 44-year-old Jenny Jean McKenzie, were taken by Hudson EMS to Hillsdale Hospital for treatment of their injuries.
Deputies say they were both wearing their seatbelts.
