MASON TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – The driver of a motorcycle that police say was traveling at a high rate of speed was injured after crashing into a pick-up truck early Thursday morning in Cass County’s Mason Township.
At 4:36 a.m. deputies with the Cass County Sheriff’s Office responded to a personal injury crash on US-12 near Five Points Road. Their initial investigation of the crash showed that the driver of the motorcycle, 22-year-old Dustin Wigginton of Union was headed east bound on US-12 and collided with a Ford F250 driven by 36-year-old Chad Wiser of Edwardsburg.
The truck was turning into a driveway and the motorcycle, according to witnesses, was traveling at a high rate of speed and collided with the truck.
Wigginton was not wearing a helmet and was airlifted to South Bend Memorial Hospital. Wiser was not injured in the crash.