Michigan car crash kills three family members from TLC’s Meet the Putmans

Five other relatives were injured when vehicles crashed into each other after semi-truck driver failed to stop at sign

Three members of the Michigan-based family featured on TLC's reality show Meet the Putmans were recently killed in a car crash, and five other members were injured.

In a statement shared on Saturday, the family said its patriarch Bill Papa" Putman, his wife, Barb - who goes by Neenee - and their daughter-in-law Megan were killed in a tragic car accident" that was evidently reported the previous night.