Isabella County Sheriff's Office is investigating the two unrelated car accidents from Thursday night in the area of M20 and Coldwater roads.

The first involved a car vs deer around 5am.

The vehicle attempted to avoid the deer which caused the vehicle to hit strike a power pole.

The pole broke and the power line fell onto M20.

The road was closed for a couple of hours while the accident response was concluded, and Consumers removed the line.

The driver sustained minor injuries.


The second crash which also shut down M20 for several hours happened around 4:30pm.

The Sheriff's Office tells us a pickup truck pulled into the path of a semi-truck that was traveling west bound.
The pickup truck was pushed off the roadway by the semi-truck in the tree line.

The driver of the pickup sustained serious injuries, but they did not appear to be life-threatening at the time.

The semi-truck driver was not injured in the crash.