READING, MI (WTVB) – A Reading man was killed and two other perople were injured Thursday afternoon in a two vehicle accident at the intersection of M-49 and Bankers Road in Hillsdale County’s Reading Township.
The Hillsdale County Sheriff’s Department says the crash happened at about 1:30 p.m. when a 2018 Freightliner operated by 42-year-old Robert Earl Martienssen Junior of Canton, Michigan collided with a 2009 Ford F-150 pickup truck that was being driven by 71-year-old Ronald Guy Richardson.
Richardson was pronounced dead at the scene. A juvenile passenger in his vehicle was air lifted from the scene to St. Vincent’s Hospital in Toledo, Ohio. Martienssen was taken to Hillsdale Hospital.
The Sheriff’s Department is still investigating the accident.
They were assisted by Reading Police and Fire, Reading Emergency unit, the Hillsdale Rural Fire Department and the Michigan State Police.
