CASS COUNTY, MI Two people were transported by ambulance and air to a Kalamazoo hospital after a Saturday night crash in Cass County.

Olivia Hines, 25, of Dowagiac, and Jordan Hawkins, 28, of Marcellus Township, were riding a motorcycle westbound on Marcellus Highway, near Finch Road, when a pickup truck pulled out of a driveway into their path, a news release from the Cass County Sheriffs Office states.

Hines and Hawkins, neither of whom were wearing a helmet, were thrown from the back of the motorcycle as a result of the collision, according to the the sheriffs office.

Deputies respond to the crash at about 9:13 p.m. Aug. 8, where they learned the motorcycle ridden by Hawkins and Hines had collided with a pickup driven by a 21-year-old Three Rivers man.

The Three Rivers man was wearing a seatbelt and alcohol was not a factor in the crash, deputies said.

Both Hines and Hawkins were transported to Ascension Borgess Hospital in Kalamazoo.

The case remains under investigation at this time.

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