Two men sent to hospital after head-on collision in Ann Arbor
Two people were taken to the hospital Friday morning after a head-on collision on Plymouth Road caused by a driver who may have been drunk.
Ann Arbor police Lt. Renee Bush said police responded at 3:15 a.m. Friday to Plymouth Road near Broadway Street after the accident was reported. She said a silver Toyota and a black Pontiac had been involved in a head-on collision with extensive damage done to both vehicles.
Bush said the 29 year-old Ann Arbor man in the Toyota hit the 21-year-old Ann Arbor man driving the Pontiac. The Pontiac was westbound on Plymouth Road and the driver told police the other vehicle was traveling eastbound in the same lane, causing the collision, she said.
Both men were transported to the University of Michigan Hospital with non-life threatening injuries, Bush said.
Police smelled intoxicants on the breath of the 29-year-old driver but did not arrest him at the scene because of his injuries, Bush said. A search warrant is being sought in the case to gather more evidence, she said.
The accident is still under investigation, she said.
Kyle Feldscher covers cops and courts for AnnArbor.com. He can be reached at kylefeldscher@annarbor.com or you can follow him on Twitter.
Comments
Joe_Citizen
Sat, May 5, 2012 : 12:20 p.m.
and they say Cannabis is a bad? Right here is the proof that humans have only profit in mind, with absolutely no regard for life, or lives tied to those life's. Get real and legalize Cannabis, and replace it with the real killer "alcohol", you can say and believe what ever, but the Facts are Facts, the rest is a Lie.
Townie
Sat, May 5, 2012 : 1:26 a.m.
Guidelines: Insensitivity to victims of accidents or crimes - Presuming guilt on the part of persons accused of crimes* Isn't this presuming guilt? Does Kyle know, free of any doubt, (presuming)? Please remove this article for violation of guidelines.
Tru2Blu76
Sat, May 5, 2012 : 12:49 a.m.
What a great country: we're all free to screw up our brains in any way we choose!! It might help if we used technology: implanting a sensor / broadcasting chip in the body of anyone convicted of causing a collision or running down a cyclist or pedestrian while intoxicated. Whenever that person's BAC reached .04, it would activate and send the location of the newly intoxicated individual to police who would then monitor their movements until either the person's locator indicated they were in a moving motor vehicle or their BAC dropped below .04. @AnnArbor.com: start a trend, stop using "alcohol related accident" and start using "alcohol related collision" in stories like this one. It's no accident. If you're too tired to type the extra letter, substitute "crash" for collision. Aircraft crash, why can't automobiles, trucks and motor homes? An accident is something unexpected and not the fault of anyone. If a wheel comes off or the Sasquatch you're transporting suddenly goes berserk inside the car while you're driving: those are accidents.
Ann English
Sat, May 5, 2012 : 12:30 a.m.
The younger driver was the better driver. The accident took place in the wee hours of this morning, but a drunk driver would hit another vehicle head-on at that time regardless of the car's color. I don't recall any reports of any lanes on Plymouth Road being closed at this time for construction, so there was plenty of room for the older Toyota driver to get over and continue on his leftward curve of the road. People do have charges filed against them from hospital beds; at least this collision didn't happen on a freeway, where the impact would have been much worse. I'm assuming the drunk driver was using his headlights: I know of one freeway accident decades ago where the drunk driver going the wrong way on one side of an expressway did NOT have his headlights on, hit a relative of someone I knew, and died from the collision. He was going over 75 mph.
justcurious
Fri, May 4, 2012 : 10:14 p.m.
No testing done at the hospital?
citizenwhocares
Fri, May 4, 2012 : 6:42 p.m.
Drunk driving accidents and and auto accidents in general have and continue to decline. This is not why auto insurance has increased.
Joe_Citizen
Sat, May 5, 2012 : 12:56 p.m.
They have declined because of Medical Cannabis, and the availability of it. Drunk driving brings in lots of money for private and public interests. Do you really think they care about life when finances are involved. You may want to look at the real facts around why Cannabis was made illegal, and why alcohol has been kept on the shelve for our children, wives, husbands, fathers, uncles, and so on, will be killed or placed into a bed for the rest of their lives. People sit around and believe Cannabis is a threat, when your child can go and pay some homeless person to buy them alcohol, and then they go and get drunk and raped or killed, or even worse. Personally I would much rather Cannabis be the substance my kid picks up, (Hopefully she will not pick up anything) but at least she will live till the next day. Alcohol is the most powerful drug known to man, and it does the most damage to live tissue, then any-other on the market and whether it's controlled or not Crystal-Meth comes in second, and Crack not too far behind that, but Cannabis doesn't even make it to the list of killer drugs, and it is classified as such.
Sparty
Fri, May 4, 2012 : 6:14 p.m.
I hope both men make quick recoveries !
JRW
Fri, May 4, 2012 : 5:39 p.m.
Unless the penalties for drunk driving are made much more severe, these kinds of accidents and injuries will continue and more lives will be lost. The 29 year old who was drinking needs to spend some time in jail. "Extensive damage to both vehicles." And we wonder why our auto ins rates continue to increase every year.
Joe_Citizen
Sat, May 5, 2012 : 12:28 p.m.
They have been trying to do this, but the alcohol lobbyists pore money into keeping it down, while MMADD, is fighting to bring it up. But it's too bad for MMADD because they just don't have the grease like big alcohol does. You may think it's a problem, but not when your hand is filled with C-NOTES.
Hmm
Fri, May 4, 2012 : 4:41 p.m.
Time to make alcohol consumption illegal again