GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Two people are dead after a crash triggered by a damaged stop sign in northern Michigan.

Michigan State Police say the crash happened shortly after midnight on Friday at County Road 633 and Miller Road in Grand Traverse County. Investigators found two Jeeps crashed at the intersection, one travelling westbound and the other heading south.

“The white Jeep was supposed to have come upon a stop sign at the intersection of Miller and County Road 633. However, the stop sign had been damaged in a previous incident and was laying in the ditch,” MSP said in a statement. “Because of this, the westbound Jeep did not stop and was struck by the southbound Jeep on the passenger side.”

The driver of the westbound Jeep, identified as a 33-year-old woman from Northport, was

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