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Woman arrested following fatal Baraga County crash

BARAGA TOWNSHIP, MI--   One person was killed in a traffic crash in Baraga Township Friday. 

Troopers from the Calumet Post were dispatched around 4:10 p.m. to US-41 near the Pines Convenience store. They say a 48-year-old Pelkie woman was southbound when she tried to make a left turn into the gas station parking lot. She turned into the path of a northbound pickup driven by a 69-year-old Wisconsin man.

The driver of the truck wasn’t injured. The woman, her 56-year-old male passenger and 4-year-old son were taken to Baraga County Memorial Hospital. The 56-year-old man later died of his injuries.

The 48-year-old driver was arrested for operating while intoxicated and lodged in the Baraga County Jail.

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.