The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) discussed a plan to make Silver Lake Sand Dunes safer Monday night.
This comes after yet another serious accident Sunday night.
The DNR has a 99-page draft for people to review and comment on until mid-October.
“We’re concerned about people’s safety,” Silver Lake State Park Manager Jody Johnston said.
This draft plan follows several serious and two deadly crashes this summer.
FOX 17 “We want people to come out, enjoy the park in a safe way and go home at the end of the day,” Johnston added.
On Monday, park officials announced recent updates to provide a safer experience to visitors.
“We’ve recently added tourniquet training as well, too. Just recently, with our response time on Sunday, we had about five officers there on scene within less than five minutes,” Silver Lake State Park Park Supervisor Joshua Smith said.
One hundred seventy people registered to hear more about the state park’s General Management Plan.
“We’re not going to wait until the visitor-use management study is done, if there’s something that needs to be implemented now,” Michigan DNR Park Management Plan Administrator Debbie Jensen said.