Three women from Detroit are dead after their car failed to negotiate a curve on southbound M-10, launched off an embankment and crashed down onto a freeway ramp near Wyoming Avenue early Sunday morning. Michigan State Police said the driver and her two passengers all died from their injuries in the roughly 2 a.m. crash, which remains under investigation.
According to audacy.com, the driver was heading south on the Lodge Freeway when she lost control in a curve in the roadway. The vehicle left the freeway, climbed an embankment and tore through shrubbery before going airborne, ultimately landing on the entrance ramp to southbound M-10 from Wyoming and slamming into a concrete barrier. All three women were pronounced dead at the scene from their injuries.
The victims were all female residents of Detroit, but their names and ages have not been released, per the same report. State police have said alcohol and speed are likely contributing factors in the crash, though the investigation is still active and no further details on potential charges have been disclosed.
A Dangerous Stretch of Freeway
Sunday's wreck adds to a troubling run of serious crashes along the same corridor. ClickOnDetroit, which first reported the victims as three Detroit women, noted the crash site sits right at the Wyoming Avenue interchange — a stretch of the Lodge that has seen fatal wrecks before. In February 2021, a 25-year-old man was killed in a single-vehicle crash at that same Wyoming Avenue exit ramp, an incident in which state police said excessive speed was a factor while the medical examiner was left to determine whether impairment played a role, according to a separate report from clickondetroit.com.
Other crashes near the M-10 and Wyoming interchange have also ended in cars leaving the roadway entirely. In one case detailed by cbsnews.com, a 36-year-old Detroit man driving too fast on the ramp drove through the freeway fence, sending his Kia airborne before it overturned onto a pickup truck below, seriously injuring one person. A separate rollover crash at the same Lodge Freeway location left three people hurt, including a woman in her 20s who was ejected from the vehicle, per that same outlet's reporting.
A Deadly Month on the Lodge
The overnight wreck also followed a particularly violent stretch for Detroit-area freeways. Earlier in October, a driver was killed after stopping on the Lodge Freeway to help victims of an earlier crash, according to the Detroit Free Press. That good Samaritan case echoed another fatal Southfield incident in which a motorist was struck and killed while trying to help people involved in a two-vehicle wreck on southbound M-10 near 9 Mile Road, with troopers responding shortly after 11:30 p.m. and the freeway staying closed into the early morning hours, as reported by fox2detroit.com.
Sunday's fatal crash also happened the same overnight period as two other freeway wrecks in the Detroit area, according to wxyz.com, which described the Lodge Freeway crash near Wyoming Avenue as the third such incident that night. Michigan State Police have not released additional information on the three victims, and the investigation into what happened on the Lodge Freeway before dawn Sunday continues.
