Off-Duty Officer Killed In Hit-And-Run Crash
Police Say Driver Later Contacts Troopers
POSTED: Wednesday, June 21, 2006
UPDATED: 8:24 am EDT June 21,
2006
DETROIT -- Michigan State Police believe they have the man responsible for a hit-and-run crash that killed an off-duty Detroit police sergeant.The crash occurred on eastbound Interstate 96 at about 8:15 p.m. Tuesday when a tractor-trailer crashed into three officers on motorcycles, near Schaefer Road, according to police. Police said the driver of the tractor-trailer left the scene, but later contacted state troopers, who picked him up.The driver -- a 61-year-old Mount Carroll, Ill., resident -- was brought to the Detroit post of the Michigan State Police for questioning.The name of the 49-year-old off-duty officer has not been released.
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