Sheriff’s Office: 1 dead in weather-related traffic crash

LAPEER CO., Mich. (WNEM) - A Lapeer woman died because of injuries she received in a weather-related traffic crash on Wednesday.

Just after 4 p.m. Wednesday, the National Weather Service issued a thunderstorm warning. The Lapeer County Sheriff’s Office was sent to a crash at the intersection of Imlay City and Wilder Road at 4:33 p.m.

A 2019 Dodge Ram was parked in a vacant lot at the intersection. The truck received damage to the windshield and roof, according to the sheriff’s office.

The driver was a 39-year-old Lapeer man. The man’s wife, 36-year-old Katelyn Furneaux, of Lapeer, was in the passenger seat.

The sheriff’s office said their 12-year-old son was in the back seat behind the driver.

The truck was going west on Peppermill Road near Force Road in Attica Township. A tree adjacent to the road came down on top of the truck.

A branch entered the passenger compartment and injured Furneaux, according to the sheriff’s office.

Furneaux was the only one injured and EMS took her to McLaren in Lapeer, where she later died from her injuries, the sheriff’s office said.

This crash is under investigation.

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