Family avoids injury in crash

Posted: 11.07.2009 at 7:39 PM

Brakes went out in car

MARQUETTE TOWNSHIP -- A Negaunee family is lucky to be alive Saturday after the brakes in their car failed, striking some trees.

It happened around noon Saturday on County Road 492 in Marquette Township.

The 40-year-old driver from Negaunee told police he was traveling at a slow rate of speed when his brakes failed. He drove the car into trees near the Highway Center Line Historical Marker.

He and his two passengers were unharmed in the crash. No names have been released.

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