A 41-year-old Sterling Heights man is dead and a 27-year-old woman is recovering from non-life-threatening injuries after their SUV left Hall Road, crossed a grassy median, struck a tree and rolled several times near Delco Boulevard. Police suspect alcohol was a factor in the crash, which happened Friday in Sterling Heights.
According to CBS News Detroit, the 2018 Nissan Rogue was traveling eastbound on Hall Road, passing Delco Boulevard, when it veered into the median and struck a tree before rolling multiple times. Police believe the man was behind the wheel. Both he and the woman managed to get out of the vehicle after the crash and were taken to a hospital, where he later died. The woman, also from Sterling Heights, was hospitalized with injuries that were not considered life-threatening.
Investigators with the Sterling Heights Police Department Traffic Safety Bureau, the municipal unit that handles collision investigations and accident reconstruction, per the City of Sterling Heights, are asking anyone who witnessed the collision to contact Officer Archer at 586-446-2920. Neither the man nor the woman has been publicly identified by name in reporting so far, and it remains unclear whether toxicology results have been requested or returned.
A Corridor With a Troubled Safety Record
The stretch of Hall Road, also known as M-59, where the crash occurred sits within one of Metro Detroit’s most crash-heavy commercial corridors. Nearby intersections at Hall Road and Schoenherr Road and at Hall Road and Hayes Road each logged 76 crashes in 2025, according to a report from CBS News. Regional transportation analyses describe M-59 as a heavy-volume boulevard corridor where wide grassy medians and frequent crossover turns create distinct rollover and off-road crash risks, as detailed by Goodman Acker…