COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – The Coldwater City Council approved a request from Coldwater Police on Monday night to use insurance payout money of just under $28,000 to replace a patrol unit that was deemed a total loss following a crash on icy I-69 on the morning of March 7, 2018.
The police car was struck by an out-of-control vehicle near the U.S. 12 exit.
Director of Police and Fire Service Mark Bartell says the accident happened on the northbound side at about the time a number of weather-related accidents and slide offs started to take place that morning
Nobody was in the police vehicle which was struck from behind.
Bartell says Sgt. Scott Sergent and Officer Mike Clemons along with Branch County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Roy Shutts were outside the vehicle working another accident when the police car was struck.
He says the insurance company has offered some additional coverage for equipment and the transfer of equipment from the old unit to the new one.
In other business, the City Council approved the sale of a vacant lot at 43 Race Street to Carla Kish for $1,500. The site is the former location of a residential structure that was demolished in late 2016. The City bought the property through the State of Michigan’s tax foreclosure program. A previous purchaser for the property backed out last fall after the City Council accepted an offer.
