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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
- Injury crash reported.
- Units en route.
- Patient still having difficulty breathing, needs help getting out of the vehicle, still a priority 1 response.
- Units on scene.
- Updated to Motorist assist.
- Cleared from the dispatch board.
About this call
- Location
- Eastbound I-196 off-ramp & Adams St
Holland & Holland Twp, Ottawa County, MI
More calls on I-196 - Earlier on this street
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- Oct 28, 2026, injury crash · Adams St & westbound I-196 off-ramp
- Oct 24, 2026, injury crash · Adams St & westbound I-196 off-ramp
- Aug 10, 2026, injury crash · Adams St & 96th Ave
- Jan 25, 2026, injury crash · 104th Ave & Adams St
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