ROCKFORD, Mich. — "We could just sit there and talk for hours with each other, and not one of us would get bored of each other," said Evan LaFrance, best friend of Josh Vodry, 21, from Plainfield Twp. who was killed in a motorcycle crash on Saturday.
Vodry was identified by his friends and family.
The Kent County Sheriff's Office said Vordy was driving a motorcycle southbound on Plainfield Avenue on Saturday evening when he crashed into a vehicle turning westbound onto Mark Street.
KCSO said Vodry was taken to the hospital where he died from his injuries, while the woman driving the vehicle was uninjured.
Vodry had recently recovered after surviving a dirt bike crash at Silver Lake Dunes in August.
"That night, I lost my best friend, I lost my brother from another mother, and the best person to ever walk into my life that I'll never be able to get back," said LaFrance.
LaFrance described Vodry as kind, compassionate and caring. He went on to say Vodry taught him so much through their friendship and instilled in him the virtue of caring for others.
"He would give the shirt off his back to anyone that that needed help," said LaFrance. "No matter what someone was going through or what you're going through, he would always lend that helping hand to someone, because it could change their life."
Vodry was known for driving his signature orange jeep that he built alongside his father, who passed away from cancer several years ago.
"When his dad got diagnosed with cancer that hit him hard and he cared a lot about his family and his dad and made sure to do everything with him that he could until his last moments," said LaFrance. "Even when that happened, I've never seen a kid his age, our age, that was so strong."
LaFrance said he cherishes the times when they would sit at their local park for hours, oblivious to how much time would pass.
"We could stay up and talk literally, until the sky fades into darkness and into late hours of the night and none of us would really know," LaFrance said.
He said there's so much in his daily life that will always make him think of his best friend.
"There's not going to be a day that goes by, that I I look at a truck that goes by, or a Jeep that goes by, that I'm not going to think about Josh," said LaFrance. "Just sitting there working on my vehicles, having a wrench in my hand, I know he'll always be with me."
Vodry's family will hold a celebration of life in early December.
A GoFundMe has been set up to help Vodry's family with funeral and medical expenses, which can be found here.
