{"id":2055277,"date":"2025-09-28T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2055277"},"modified":"2025-09-28T06:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T06:00:17","slug":"meet-the-putmans-family-says-3-members-killed-in-michigan-car-crash-5-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/meet-the-putmans-family-says-3-members-killed-in-michigan-car-crash-5-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Meet the Putmans&#8217; family says 3 members killed in Michigan car crash, 5 injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F09%2Fmeet-the-putmans.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall%261759023543\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Three members of the Michigan family featured in TLC\u2019s reality show \u201cMeet the Putmans\u201d were killed in a tragic car accident on Friday night.  <\/p>\n<p>Family patriarch Bill \u201cPapa\u201d Putman, his wife, Barb \u2014 who goes by \u201cNeenee\u201d \u2014 and their daughter-in-law Megan died when a semi-truck ran through a stop sign and collided with their jeep at a rural intersection near Cass City \u2013 located north of Detroit, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1CR7jhgUg1\/\">according to the Tuscola County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI come to you with a heavy heart asking for your prayers,\u201d the family said in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1322499395910476&amp;set=a.232704701556623\">a statement<\/a>. \u201cOur family was in a tragic car accident and we lost Papa, Neenee, and Aunt Megan. They have gone home to be with the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cMeet the Putmans\u201d aired on TLC in 2017 for one season before the family rebooted the series on YouTube in 2021 as \u201cGrowing Up Putman.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Growing Up Putman \/ YouTube<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Megan Putnam\u2019s husband Blake, and their three children, Lulu, Alena, and Noah and niece Gia remain hospitalized after the crash.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease keep Uncle Blake, Lulu, Alena, Noah, and Gia in your prayers as they remain in the hospital, we are asking for complete healing and strength for each of them,\u201d the statement wrote.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Police said Bill, Barb and Megan were pronounced dead on the scene, while the five other family members \u201cwere transported to respective hospitals by helicopter and MMR, some in critical condition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The semi-truck driver and his female passenger were transported to the hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The family reiterated that \u201call proclaim that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior. He is our hope, our peace, and our salvation. Even in this time of heartbreak, we rest in knowing that God is in control.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Family patriarch Bill Putman and his wife, Barb, were killed in Friday\u2019s crash. <span class=\"credit\">Growing Up Putman \/ YouTube<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/embeds.nypost.com\/protected-iframe\/ae07a3726bec0fc91a840dddea9d294c\" scrolling=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"\" allow=\"camera; fullscreen;\"><br \/>\n\t<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for every prayer, message, and act of love,\u201d the statement added. \u201cYour support means more than words can express. Please continue to lift us up, that our hearts remain fixed on the truth that Jesus conquered death so we could have eternal life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barb Putman praised her \u201cincredible husband\u201d in an emotional post celebrating his birthday three days before the crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou, Bill, are my best friend and I am so grateful for you. You bring joy and laughter into my life. I am who I am because of you,\u201d Barb said on Instagram. \u201cYou are an amazing husband, an awesome dad, an inspirational papa and a faithful friend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Michigan-based family starred in \u201cMeet the Putnam\u2019s\u201d, which ran on TLC for one season in 2017.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Ten adults and 20 kids lived together in the Putman household as of 2025, according to the family\u2019s Instagram bio. <span class=\"credit\">Growing Up Putman \/ YouTube<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The show didn\u2019t get picked up for another season on the cable channel, but the family rebooted the series on YouTube in 2021 as \u201cGrowing Up Putman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both shows followed the Putmans, a family where three generations lived inside the same 35,000 square foot house.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, twenty-five people lived in the house, including \u201cfour grown adults\u201d who resided with their parents, \u201cwives and children\u201d and contributed to \u201cone bank account.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/growingupputman\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=bec001fd-43ac-49c3-9896-bef84d36abce\">family\u2019s Instagram bio<\/a> claimed that there were 10 adults and 20 kids of the Putnam clan all \u201cliving together\u201d as of 2025.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three members of the Michigan family featured in TLC\u2019s reality show \u201cMeet the Putmans\u201d were killed in a tragic car accident on Friday night. Family patriarch Bill \u201cPapa\u201d Putman, his wife, Barb \u2014 who goes by \u201cNeenee\u201d \u2014 and their daughter-in-law Megan died when a semi-truck ran through a stop sign and collided with their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2055278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[22062,382279,22702,350859,43770,21913,37798],"class_list":["post-2055277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-collisions","tag-family","tag-michigan","tag-tlc","tag-tv","tag-us-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Meet-the-Putmans-family-says-3-members-killed-in-Michigan.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2055277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2055278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}