Full Notification

 
On January 8, 2024 at approximately 2:53 PM, Sheriff Richard J. Behnke reports that his deputies were sent out to a single vehicle crash located near Flanders Street and Twin Lakes Rd. in Wayne Township.  Deputies arrived on scene and made contact with  injured passenger 63-year-old Dowagiac resident Teri Abiney.  The driver had left the scene and his name is being withheld for further investigation. The vehicle had turned east off of Twin Lakes Rd and appeared to have lost control due to speed.  Abiney fell from the vehicle before it struck a tree.  Abiney was transported to Borgess Lee Memorial Hospital in Dowagiac, MI. for injuries sustained in the crash.


Assisting at the scene was VBEMS, Wayne Fire and Dowagiac Fire Department.  Seatbelts were not worn and alcohol nor drugs were a factor in the crash.