White Lake police: Driver carrying gun without permit crashes, destroys headstones

White Lake Crash

WHITE LAKE TOWNSHIP, Mich. – White Lake police say a driver had a 1-year-old child with him and was also carrying a gun without a permit when he lost control of an SUV last week and flipped it in a cemetery.

The driver, a 22-year-old White Lake man, was eastbound on Elizabeth Lake Road when his car flipped over several times near Crayview Street. The car plowed into Lakeside Cemetery, running over several headstones.

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The driver and child were not seriously hurt, but the driver faces a charge of carrying a weapon without a concealed weapons permit, which is a felony with a possible sentence up to 5 years.

The cemetery is operated by White Lake Township.


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