update: The victim of the crash has been identified as 20 year old Olivia West Long from Auburn Hills, Michigan. Long attended MSU and was in her junior year. She had been visiting friends in Holland and was returning to MSU when the accident occurred.
Long succumbed to her injuries at the Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Michigan.
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A two car accident occurred Thursday around 2:30pm on on I-96 near Knox Rd. in Ionia county's Portland Township. A car with a single occupant rear-ended a large box truck as traffic backed up from an accident in Clinton County.
The Ionia County Sheriff's Office said the driver, who's name has not been released, was a 20 year old female from Holland. She was briefly entrapped in the vehicle at the accident scene and was transported to Sparrow Hospital where she later died from her injuries.
The driver of the box truck was not injured. The Ionia County Sheriff’s Office was assisted by Berlin Orange Fire, Portland Twp Fire, LIFE EMS, Portland EMS, and Reed and Hoppes.
