Barry County Sheriff’s Office deputies were assisting Michigan State Police with an unrelated incident Monday about 7 p.m. when a vehicle drove past a road block on M-43 and Podunk Road and was subsequently stopped by a deputy, a sheriff’s news release said.
When the unidentified person fled the scene, deputies initiated a pursuit.
The driver ended up crashing the vehicle on Cloverdale Road, east of Kingsbury Road. Both the driver and passenger of the vehicle were transported to local hospitals with non-life threatening injuries. The incident remains under investigation.
Deputies Scott Ware and Barry Brandt are the investigators;
Michigan State Police, Mercy EMS, Delton Fire Department and, Barry County Central Dispatch assisted deputies.