GALESBURG, Mich. — Concerns are being raised after a car drove off of Climax Road in Charleston Township.

Charleston Township supervisor Jerry Vander Roest witnessed the incident Sunday night.

“I came out here, tried to yell at him about 20 different times, asking him to stay in the car, ‘Are you alright? Anything happening?’ and he wouldn’t respond or anything else. If he had got out into that water, the current is in the center, and that’s where he was at,” Vander Roest said.

He said this isn’t the first time he has seen an incident like this.

“There’s been four out of the last five years, we’ve had four cars go over there,” Vander Roest said.

Vander Roest began working with the Township in 1980, previously serving as the supervisor. He returned to the position in 2016. He has brought the issue to the Kalamazoo County Road Commission before. However, nothing has come of it.

“They say they have a policy that they don’t allow guard rails at the end of dead end roads, but this is a different situation,” he said. “In life, there’s all kinds of different situations.”

Vander Roest hopes this can be a unique enough situation to invoke real change.

“Just going to take somebody’s attention and hopefully this might be it,” he said. “There’s been enough of this and the rest of it that hopefully, we put one on there for safety. Again, this is a different dead end road than the rest of it.”

The Kalamazoo County Road Commission put up a temporary barricade Monday morning. They are currently reviewing the situation at this time. They said the situation is too fresh, so there is not a timeline on when the review could be completed.