Former state rep dies after his bicycle strikes unmarked pipe in Orion

A former Michigan state representative from Oakland County who struck an unmarked sewer pipe while riding his bike in Orion Township died Friday, Nov. 13, a family attorney said. Former Republican State Rep. John Reilly, 68, was biking to a local church early Wednesday, Nov. 11, when he hit a pipe that lay over the sidewalk on North Axford Street near the Orion Township post office. He suffered a spinal cord injury, two fractured vertebrae and a brain injury, said Orion Township Supervisor Chris Barnett. Family attorney Joe Langlois confirmed that Reilly died after he was taken off life support Friday evening. Reilly, an Oakland Township Republican, represented House District 46 in the Michigan Legislature from 2017 through 2022. The Oakland County Sheriff's Office Crash Reconstruction Unit is investigating the circumstances of the crash, said Tyler Sweers, an agency spokesperson. At approximately 6 a.m., the Orion Township Fire Department was dispatched to a reported medical emergency involving a bicyclist near the post office on Lapeer Road, the sheriff's department said in a statement late Friday. Reilly was riding his bicycle along the pedestrian safety path when he struck a large bypass pipe extending across the pathway as part of an

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