ONEIDA TOWNSHIP (WWJ) A mother and her two children died in a crash with semi-truck in Central Michigan.
The Eaton County Sheriff’s Office said it happened on Thursday (9/26) around 8 p.m. in the area of Mt. Hope Highway and Cochran Road—in Oneida Township, about 13 miles west of Lansing.
In a statement on Facebook ; the sheriff’s office said her van was traveling westbound when she did not stop at a stop sign and entered the intersection. A northbound semi-truck and trailer hit them.
The driver and her “two young children” died at the scene, the sheriff’s office said.
A third child and the semi-truck driver were both rushed to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The crash happened in a residential, rural area surrounded by farmland.
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The Eaton County Sheriff’s Office Accident Investigation Team is “actively investigating” the crash, the sheriff’s office said.