OTSEGO COUNTY — Michigan State Police troopers are investigating a head-on crash that left three people with critical injuries on Sept. 20 in Elmira Township.

According to a Sept. 26 news release, troopers from the Gaylord Post responded around 8:25 p.m. to the crash on M-32 near Buell Road.

According to a preliminary investigation, a Ford SUV driven by a 70-year-old man from Saranac was traveling east when it crossed the centerline and struck a westbound Dodge pickup truck head-on.

The SUV driver was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The pickup was driven by a 78-year-old Gaylord man. His front-seat passenger, a 79-year-old man from Plymouth, and two 76-year-old women — one from Gaylord and one from Plymouth — were in the back seat. The passenger and both w

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