(KINDERHOOK TOWNSHIP) – A Thursday morning rollover crash injured two Angola residents.

According to the Branch County Sheriff’s Office, 44 year old Morris Butler was driving north on Old U.S. 27 near Kope-Kon Road around 7:30 AM. The pick up crossed the centerline and just missed a vehicle heading south. Butler’s truck then hit a guardrail and went into a ditch where it struck an embankment of a creek and flipped on its top.

First responders used the jaws of life to free Butler and his 14 year old female passenger. Butler was transported by ambulance to Parkview Regional Medical Center in Fort Wayne, while the girl was flown to the hospital.

Assisting deputies were the Lakeland and Fremont Fire Departments; the Michigan State Police, the Reading Ambulance Services, Life Care Ambulance and Life Flight Helicopter.