Michigan House approves the renaming M-6 after the truck driver was killed in service

Lansing, Mi-Das House to Michigan, approved a renaming of a six-mile route from M-6 after a hatcher from Hastings Town was fatally fatally hit by a vehicle during service.

With an almost unanimous vote, the house approved on Tuesday, May 20, with the award from M-6 in Kent County from Kalamazoo Avenue to 60th Street Southeast as a “Keagan Spencer Memorial Highway”.

It is now going to the Senate to the Senate.

“It's bitter,” said Keagan Spencer's father Matt Spencer. “I am sad and still mourn the loss of my son, but to know that there is a group of people in Lansing who felt that this honor is humble to this young man as a father.

“I would take back my son at any moment so as not to have this name, but it is refined that Keagan did not have to die for anything good due to this event.”

If Keagan Spencer were allowed, he would be the first towing car driver who was killed during the service to get a renamed highway. Mutobahn names are most frequently used to honor police officers and soldiers who were killed in the service.

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Keagan Spencer, a 25-year-old father of two children and third-generation slip drivers, was met on November 4, 2023 in the Median M-6 near Kraft Avenue Southeast in Caledonia Township.

According to the House Fiscal Agency, he dragged two vehicles on M-6 on the east to M-6 when he ran a dog in the median. He parked his truck in the median, began his flashing lights and got out to save the dog.

Payton Ferris was led to the east on M-6 when the car slowed down in front of him. The state police said that Ferris drove 80 miles per hour when he broke off to the left, lost control and drove the road into the median.

Ferris hit Spencer and killed him. In December he was sentenced to two years of probation for an offense that caused a violation of deaths.

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Matt Spencer has campaigned for harder punishments for distracted drivers who killed and created a campaign called HIT called HIT and helped to raise awareness of the need, to slow down and to move when drivers see workers and rescue workers on the roadside.

The Committee on Civil Rights, Justice and Public Security of the Senate will hear testimonies on two legislative templates on Thursday that would violate the criminal punishments for drivers who kill or injure pedestrians.

“I really want to emphasize that this slow down. This is the greatest thing the workers on the roadside that people have to do,” said Matt Spencer. “The first step, simply slow down and then rate the situation and move if you can sure. I think that a few people would go down in the rescue alone.”

The drivers have to slow down by law and slowed down and move for emergency, maintenance and supply vehicles on the streets. If you do not change or slow down, this can lead to a ticket and a fine of $ 400.

The state representative Angela Rigas, R-Caledonia, converted the legislative template according to Keagan Spencer to rename M-6.

“This memorial highway name is more than a tribute,” said Rigas in a floor speech on Tuesday. “It is a call to act. It reminds us of the victims made by towers, first aiders and street workers who risk their lives every day.”

Matt Spencer hopes that the signs will show text in honor of his son, which remind the drivers, slow down and move and warn of a distracted driving.

Rigas presented the legislation of the last session when the Democrats checked the house, but it was not pulled out of the committee.

Those who voted against the draft law on Tuesday were state representatives of Phil Green, R-Millington, Matt Maddock, R-Milford and Phil Skaggs, D-East Grand Rapids.