OLIVE TWP. — A routine afternoon drive along the quiet rural crossroad of 120th Avenue and Stanton Street ended in sudden tragedy Monday, leaving a driver dead and four passengers — including three young boys — injured when an SUV collided with a cement truck.
At approximately 2:20 p.m. on Oct. 5, emergency dispatchers received calls reporting a severe two-vehicle crash in Olive Township. Callers warned that multiple people were trapped inside a 2024 Toyota SUV that had collided with a 2016 Phoenix cement mixer.
According to preliminary findings by sheriff’s investigators, the northbound cement truck was approaching the intersection on 120th Avenue when the westbound Toyota failed to yield the right-of-way, pulling directly into the mixer’s path…