A former Michigan state representative has a serious spinal cord injury after hitting an unmarked sewer pipe in Orion Township while riding his bike, according to local officials.
Former Republican State Rep. John Reilly was biking to a local church early Wednesday, Nov. 11, when he hit a pipe that lay over the sidewalk on North Axford Street near the Orion Township post office. He suffered a spinal cord injury, two fractured vertebrae and a brain injury, according to Orion Township Supervisor Chris Barnett…