COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – Police are looking for the driver of a passenger car who ran away from the scene of a two vehicle crash involving injury on Friday morning on North Michigan Avenue near State Road.
The Branch County Sheriff’s Department says the crash involving the car and a pickup truck happened at 5:55 a.m.
A preliminary investigation indicates 46-year-old Don Barton of Colon was driving his pickup north on North Michigan when a southbound passenger car went left of center and struck Barton’s pickup head on at a angle.
Barton suffered leg injuries but the driver of the car fled north bound on foot just before deputies arrived on the scene.
Evidence in snow showed the fleeing driver was picked up by another vehicle north of the scene.
The accident remains under investigation by Branch County Sheriff Deputies.
They were assisted at the scene by Life Care Ambulance and Coldwater Fire Rescue.
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