BATES TOWNSHIP, MI-- A Houghton man has been killed in an Iron County crash between a passenger car containing three brothers and a semi.
Troopers from the Iron Mountain Post say the accident happened Wednesday around 1 p.m. on Bates Amasa Road near Paulson Road in Bates Township.
Preliminary investigation indicates a 16-year-old male driver from Houghton failed to negotiate a curve, lost control of the vehicle, crossed the center line, and hit a semi tractor-trailer.
The driver was taken to Aspirus Hospital, then airlifted to a Wisconsin hospital, where he remains in critical condition. The front passenger, a 22-year-old Houghton man, was pronounced dead at the scene. The rear passenger, a 20-year-old man also from Houghton, was taken to Aspirus and admitted for non-life-threatening injuries. The driver of the semi was not injured.
Officials say everyone involved was wearing a seat belt.
Icy, snow-covered roads are believed to be a factor in the crash, which remains under investigation.
