Swartz Creek View

State police investigating fatal crash




GAINES TOWNSHIP – An early morning crash claimed the life of a 47-year-old Swartz Creek area man.

Terry Johnson was traveling west on Reid Road near Elms Road around 12:50 a.m. Tuesday when his 2010 Ford Mustang convertible left the roadway, went airborne, rolled several times and landed in a ditch, said state police 1st Lt. David Kaiser.

“Troopers arrived, located the vehicle in the ditch, found no one in the vehicle and checked the surrounding area where they located the driver deceased on scene,” Kaiser said.

Crash investigators were trying to determine what caused the vehicle to go out of control, he said.

“It doesn’t look like there were any other vehicles involved or that he took evasive action to avoid anything,” Kaiser said.