By TruckCrash News Desk · Published Aug. 28, 2026
Date & time: Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026, at approximately 12:30 p.m., according to Farmington Hills police
Location: Crosswalk outside the parking structure at Corewell Health Farmington Hills Hospital, Farmington Hills, Oakland County
Vehicles: One passenger vehicle; one pedestrian struck
Injuries: Father Tom Szura, 75, of the Marianhill Missionary Fathers, fatally injured; he died shortly after arriving at the emergency room
Road impact: Confined to the hospital campus; no public road closures reported
Investigating agency: Farmington Hills Police Department, with review by the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office
What Happened
A 75-year-old Catholic priest was struck and killed by a vehicle while crossing a crosswalk outside Corewell Health Farmington Hills Hospital, where he had come to deliver last rites to a fellow priest, according to reporting by WDIV Local 4 / ClickOnDetroit. Our thoughts are with Father Szura’s family, his religious community, and everyone touched by his decades of ministry.
Police told WDIV the crash happened at about 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 26. Father Tom Szura, who served with the Marianhill Missionary Fathers in Dearborn Heights for nearly 60 years and was one month from his 76th birthday, had parked in the hospital’s parking structure and was walking toward the hospital entrance. “When he stepped into the crosswalk, he was hit by a car,” according to the station’s account of the police description. He died from his injuries shortly after arriving at the emergency room.
The driver, a 41-year-old man, was arrested at the scene, police said. Farmington Hills Police Chief John Piggot told WDIV, “It was not a hit-and-run,” and said there was no evidence that the driver was intoxicated. “The case has been presented to the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office. As of now, they are not charging, but looking for additional information,” Piggot said.
Reporting: WDIV Local 4 / ClickOnDetroit, with information from the Farmington Hills Police Department.
The Investigation: What Happens Next
The Farmington Hills Police Department has completed the initial on-scene work — documenting the crosswalk, the vehicle, and witness accounts — and has forwarded its case file to the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office. Prosecutors reviewing a fatal pedestrian crash typically weigh the police reconstruction, any available surveillance or dash-camera footage, vehicle speed and sight lines, and toxicology results before deciding whether criminal charges are warranted. As of the most recent police statements, no charges had been filed, and prosecutors had asked investigators for additional information.
Because the collision occurred on a hospital campus rather than a public roadway, investigators may also look at how the crosswalk between the parking structure and the hospital entrance is marked, lit, and signed. Findings of that kind are not always made public, but they often shape any civil review that follows a fatal pedestrian crash.
The Legal Picture
How does Michigan law treat crashes that kill a pedestrian? This section is general information, not a comment on this crash. When a pedestrian dies, any criminal decision rests with the county prosecutor, who must find evidence of negligent or reckless operation before filing charges. Separately, Michigan’s no-fault system can provide survivor benefits through auto insurance regardless of who was at fault; an overview is in our guide to Michigan no-fault insurance.
What safety questions do cases like this raise? Pedestrian crashes at low-speed campus crossings often turn on visibility, driver attention, and crosswalk design. Property owners and drivers alike have duties of care around marked crossings, and investigations commonly examine both.
Where can families learn more? General information about fatal-crash investigations and civil claims is available from our legal resource pages.
Nothing in this article assumes fault by any person involved in this crash. The investigation is ongoing, no charges have been filed, and all information comes from the cited reporting.
This Stretch of Road
The crash did not happen on a public highway but at a pedestrian crossing on the Corewell Health Farmington Hills Hospital campus, between the visitor parking structure and the hospital building. Hospital campuses concentrate exactly the kind of foot traffic that crosswalk engineering is meant to protect — patients, visitors, clergy, and staff moving between parking and entrances at all hours, many of them elderly or distracted by the circumstances that brought them there.
Farmington Hills sits in southeastern Oakland County, and its hospital — long known to area residents as Botsford before the Corewell Health renaming — draws visitors from across the western Metro Detroit suburbs. Low posted speeds inside a campus can create a false sense of security: national traffic-safety research has long shown that pedestrian survival drops steeply as impact speeds rise, which is why even parking-area collisions can turn fatal for older adults. How this particular crossing is configured will be a question for investigators, not for this article.
If You Saw This Crash
Investigators and prosecutors are still gathering information. Anyone who was at the Corewell Health Farmington Hills Hospital campus around midday on Wednesday, Aug. 26 — or who has dash-camera or other video of the area near the parking structure — can contact the Farmington Hills Police Department. Even a brief observation about the crosswalk, the vehicle’s approach, or the moments before the collision can matter to an open review.
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