Crash Victim Killed During 911 Call

A woman who crashed into a tree while trying to avoid a deer on a rural Michigan highway was killed by a passing vehicle while on the phone with a state police dispatcher. The vehicle did not stop, and police are looking for the driver. Erica Sevigny, 26, had left work early at about midnight because she was ill, and seriously damaged her fiancé’s pick-up truck when it struck a tree along the Kent County road. She dialed 911, sheriff’s officials say, and gave information to a dispatcher. The call was cut-off, and Sevigny called back to give more information. But within seconds, Sevigny screamed and then there was silence. Deputies who had been enroute to the location found her dead on the roadway and the passing vehicle gone. It’s not clear from news accounts what safety information the state police dispatcher might have given Sevigny during the call, but the dispatcher did ask Sevigny if she was out of the vehicle.