One hurt in rear-end crash on southbound U.S. 31

A 24-year-old Fruitport man was taken by ambulance to North Ottawa Community Hospital for evaluation following a three-car crash this morning on southbound U.S. 31 at Columbus Avenue. The man had stopped his Jeep Liberty for a red traffic light, just after 8 a.m., when he was rear-ended by a van driven by a 40-year-old Ferrysburg woman, said Lt. Renee Freeman of the Grand Haven Department of Public Safety. The Liberty was pushed into another Jeep driven by a 30-year-old Whitehall woman, who was also stopped for the light, Freeman said.