A 20-year-old male East Lansing resident and MSU employee died in a motorcycle crash at about 4:20 a.m. today on 1-96 in Livingston County, according to an article in the Detroit Free Press.
Carl Stamm, a Lansing Community College student and custodian at MSU, died after hitting a police car during a high speed chase, according to the article.
Two Livingston County deputies began pursuing Stamm after their radars clocked him driving more than 100 mph. During the chase, Stamm outran police cruisers whose top speeds were 127 mph.
Stamm collided with a Fowlerville, Mich., police officer’s car that pulled onto the highway to join the pursuit. The police officer was not injured, but Stamm was pronounced dead at the scene.
Westbound I-96 was closed just west of Fowlerville Road in Handy Township for about five hours following the accident.
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