A 27-year-old Waterford Township man is severely injured after crashing his car into a parked patrol vehicle on westbound M-59 in Rochester Hills early Friday morning.
According to the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were investigating an unrelated incident on M-59 between Crooks and Adams roads around 2:30 a.m. when the driver of a 2018 Chevrolet Impala crashed into the back of the patrol car.
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Deputies were several yards away from the patrol vehicle at the time of the crash and were not injured. The fully marked patrol vehicle had its emergency lights on and was positioned to block off traffic at the time of the accident, deputies said.
The driver was transported by the Rochester Hills Fire Department to McLaren Oakland Hospital, where he remains in critical condition. The cause of the accident is under investigation.
This is the second recent crash involving a patrol vehicle on M-59, according to the Sheriff’s Office, prompting Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard to remind residents of Michigan’s Move Over Law.
“I cannot overstate the safety and legal need to follow the law and move over one lane away from any stopped emergency vehicle,” Bouchard said. “These crashes are too common and often deadly. Please, pay attention, slow down, and move over.”