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One dead in Delta County crash

DELTA COUNTY, MI— An Escanaba man has been killed in a two-vehicle crash in Delta County.

Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched Sunday around 12:35 p.m. to US-2 in Bayview.

They say a tire on a pickup driven by Kenneth Arnold, 81, of Cornell blew out, causing him to cross the median into oncoming traffic. He struck another pickup driven by 55-year-old Michael Englund of Escanaba.

Englund was pronounced dead at the scene.

Arnold was airlifted to UPHS-Marquette by Guardian Flight.

The crash remains under investigation.

Nicole was born near Detroit but has lived in the U.P. most of her life. She graduated from Marquette Senior High School and attended Michigan State and Northern Michigan Universities, graduating from NMU in 1993 with a degree in English.