Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
MICHIGAN STATE Police from the Wakefield Post assist the Gogebic County Sheriff's Department Thursday around 6 p.m. in reconstructing a fatal crash on U.S. 2 in Bessemer. The damaged vehicle in the middle appeared to have been struck in the rear end.
By RALPH ANSAMI
BESSEMER - One person was killed and two were injured in a Thursday afternoon accident in the city of Bessemer that closed U.S. 2 for more than four hours.
Gogebic County Sheriff Peter Matonich said a 41-year-old Wakefield man, Rex Robert Smith, was traveling east near Fairview Drive when he lost control of his vehicle and it spun into the westbound lanes of the highway.
It collided with a vehicle driven by Alvin Liikanen, 86, of Ironwood.
Liikanen and a passenger in his vehicle, 87-year-old Barbara Liikanen, were transported to nearby Aspirus Ironwoo...
