LINCOLN PARK, Mich. – Lincoln Park officials have provided new details about a rollover crash that left two children and one teenager dead and two others injured.
Police said they were called around 9 p.m. Thursday (Nov. 17) to a single-vehicle rollover crash on Cicotte Avenue, east of Porter Avenue, in Lincoln Park.
When Lincoln Park firefighters and officials from Allen Park and Southgate arrived, they realized one person had been ejected from an SUV that had crashed into a tree and a fence.
Four others had to be extricated from the wreckage, officials said.
All five were take to Corewell Health Dearborn Hospital, formerly Beaumont Dearborn, with life-threatening injuries. An 18-year-old man, an 8-year-old girl, and a 15-year-old boy died and from their injuries. A 13-year-old girl is in critical condition and a 14-year-old girl is stable.
“The Lincoln Park fire and police departments and the city of Lincoln Park express their heartfelt sympathies to the families affected by this tragedy,” a release says.
The names of the people involved have not yet been released. Officials with the Downriver Mutual Aid Accident Investigation Task Force and the Lincoln Park Police Department are investigating.
There were 55 people watching the Instagram live stream at the time of the crash.
