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Motorist assist at eastbound I-196 off-ramp & Adams St, Holland – Nov 9, 2026

Motorist assist reported at eastbound I-196 off-ramp & Adams St in Holland.

Reported
Last updated
Status
Cleared at about 8:06 PM, 52 min after the call came in

What happened

Holland Township and Holland fire and EMS were dispatched at 7:13 PM to an injury crash on eastbound I-196, where a silver Equinox was reported to have struck a vehicle and a 4-year-old boy was reported to be awake with difficulty breathing and pinned in. Units including Station 2 and Station 3 responded. A later update said the patient would not be pinned in but would need help getting out of the vehicle, and the call stayed a priority 1 response because of ongoing breathing difficulty. A responding unit reported arriving on scene at 7:22 PM.

What dispatch noted

Black 4 door car on the ramp to the highway

Above: written automatically from dispatch radio, so a detail may be misheard. Here: the dispatcher's own note, shorthand spelled out. Names and house numbers are removed from both.

Updates

  1. Injury crash reported.
  2. Units en route.
  3. Patient still having difficulty breathing, needs help getting out of the vehicle, still a priority 1 response.
  4. Units on scene.
  5. Updated to Motorist assist.
  6. Cleared from the dispatch board.

About this call

Location
Eastbound I-196 off-ramp & Adams St
Holland & Holland Twp, Ottawa County, MI
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Call type, responders and source
Call type
Motorist assist
What "motorist assist" means

An officer helping a driver whose vehicle is stopped: a breakdown, a flat tire, running out of gas, or a car stuck in a ditch or snow. It isn't a crash and usually nobody is hurt, but the vehicle may be partly blocking the road. All call types

Local agencies
Fire and rescue: Holland Department of Public Safety in the city and the Holland Township Fire Department in the townshipPolice: Holland Department of Public Safety in the city and the Ottawa County Sheriff's Office in the townshipWho covers Holland, not a list of who was sent.
Source
Fire and EMS dispatch radio and Ottawa County Central Dispatch's live incident board