BATTLE CREEK, MI (WTVB) – Three Union City High School students were injured in a two vehicle traffic accident at a Calhoun County intersection late Monday morning.
The accident happened just after 11:00 a.m. south of Battle Creek at the intersection of N Drive South and 6-Mile Road.
The accident is being investigated by the Michigan State Police.
Troopers did not issue a press release but they told the Battle Creek Enquirer that speed was apparently a factor in the accident as the students’ car collided with another car driven by 47-year-old Dave Byrd of Battle Creek as he was trying to make a turn.
The Enquirer reports the students’ car then went off the road and rolled over four times before ending up on its side in a ditch. The newspaper went on to report two of the students were taken to Bronson Hospital in Kalamazoo. A third was flown out by the Samaritan Helicopter out of Fort Wayne, INdiana. Byrd was not seriously injured.
Union City Superintendent Pat Kreger says the students were coming back to the school after attending classes at the Calhoun Area Career Center.
The names of the students as well as their conditions have not been released.
