TWO INJURED IN SILVER CREEK TOWNSHIP CRASH ![](/static/Citizen-24_02_1/img/public/msg_expiration.png)
Cass County Sheriff Richard J. Behnke reports that on 07/09/2024 at approximately 3:57 P.m. his office was called to investigate a personal injury crash near the intersection of M - 51 Hwy and M-152, in Silver Creek Township, Cass County Michigan.
Investigation shows that Shawn Scott-Fitzgerald, 67-years-old from Haslett, Michigan, was traveling northbound on M-51 Hwy. Haslett was making a left turn into a gas station and failed to yield the right of way to a south bound vehicle. The driver of this second vehicle was 20-year-old Leann Lincoln of South Bend, Indiana. Lincoln had two passengers in her vehicle: Dalton Mattimore, 22 years-old Baroda, Michigan as well as Dakota Baxter, a 20 years-old from Niles, Michigan. SMCAS Ambulance transported Scott-Fitzgerald and Lincoln to Borgess Lee Hospital in Dowagiac for non-life-threatening injuries.
The occupants of the vehicles were wearing their seatbelts and alcohol and/or drugs do not appear to be a factor in the crash. The Pokagon Tribal Police and Sister Lakes Fire Department assisted the Sheriff's Office with this crash.
The incident remains under investigation.
Address/Location
Cass County MI Sheriff's Office
321 Michigan 62
Cassopolis, MI 49031
Contact
Emergency: 9-1-1
Non-emergencies: 269-445-1560