An accident Thursday morning involving two cars left one man dead and three people hospitalized.Joshua John Cryowski, 25, was killed following an accident with a Williamston woman in Meridian Township, police said.Cryowski had recently moved to the area from Brighton.The accident occurred at about 7:48 a.m., when the woman, driving westbound on Grand River Avenue, attempted to turn left onto Hamilton Road into the path of Cryowskis car traveling eastbound, police said.Cryowski was taken to Sparrow Hospital in Lansing where he later died of head and chest trauma.Police said it did not appear he had been wearing a seat belt.The woman was traveling with her two sons, ages 12 and 13. They were all wearing safety belts, police said.The boys are being held at Sparrow for observation but their mother underwent surgery Thursday afternoon for a broken patella, Meridian Township police Lt. Thomas Couling said.No one has come forward and said they actually saw the crash, but there had to be someone out there because it was a heavy traffic time, Couling said.The accident is under investigation. Any witnesses are asked to contact the Meridian Township Police Department at 347-5060.The Ingham County Sheriffs Department is seeking a warrant against a man suspected of masturbating in his car outside two Holt elementary schools.On Tuesday afternoon a woman pulled into Midway Elementary School to pick up her child and noticed the man in the car next to her masturbating, police said. On Wednesday she contacted the department about the incident.While police were interviewing her, she noticed the car in the same spot as the day before.Officers approached the man and realized he matched composite sketches of a man seen at St. Matthew Lutheran School suspected of the same crime.The man was detained for questioning and later released, police said.The man had been convicted of a similar crime in California and has also been seen near some schools in the Lansing area. SARA LUNEBURG
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