Fatal Crash: On 07/6 at approximately 6:25 PM troopers from the Metro South Post responded to eastbound I 96 at Warren in Detroit for a traffic crash and fire.

Preliminary investigation revealed that a vehicle had become disabled in a lane of travel. Moments later, the vehicle was struck by another vehicle also eastbound on I 96. The second vehicle was struck by a third vehicle.

The initial vehicle caught fire and was fully engulfed when troopers arrived. The driver was unable to exit the vehicle and died in the fire. The victim’s identity is unknown pending autopsy results. The crash remains under investigation.

Detroit Fire’s Engine 34 and Squad 4 also responded.

The freeway remained closed while the MSP conducted their investigation.

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Detroit Police & Fire Discover Body In Burning Vehicle

January 3 2018

Detroit’s NE Side: Detroit Police & Fire Companies discovered a dead body inside a burning GMC Yukon early Wednesday morning.

The DPD and DFD were dispatched to the 10300 block of Outer Drive East at 02:50AM Wednesday morning for a vehicle fire/shots fired call.

Ladder Truck 27 from the 7th Battalion and Engine 46 from the 9th Battalion arrived on scene and stretched a red line on the burning Yukon.

The officer of Ladder Truck 27 requested an arson car to the scene due to a victim being inside the burned SUV.

The 9th Precinct’s scout on scene also advised DPD dispatch that he had an “obvious K-Type” in the driver seat of the vehicle.

Investigators have indicated the body belonged to a male and had also been shot.

The white 2007 GMC Yukon came back registered to an address on James Couzens in the City of Eastpointe.

The vehicle had not been reported stolen.

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