Names Released In Fatal New Buffalo Township Crash

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The name of a man killed in a New Buffalo Township crash over the weekend has been released. The Berrien County Sheriff’s Department tells us 18-year-old Raymundo Sanchez of Elkhart, Indiana was killed when a vehicle driven by a Laporte, Indiana woman struck the vehicle he was riding in head-on. The crash left three other passengers in that vehicle in critical condition. Two of them have since been upgraded to stable, but the sheriff’s department says one, 62-year-old Jose Salazar, remains in critical condition. The crash happened Saturday afternoon on M-239 south of Wilson Road. It remains under investigation.