TOWN OF MAGNOLIA (WKOW) — Deputies say one woman is dead and a boy is in the hospital after a car slammed into a dump truck.
The Rock County Sheriff’s Office says the crash happened just before 4 p.m. Monday at the intersection of W. CTH B and N. Coon Island Road in the town of Magnolia, which is north of Orfordville and west of Janesville.
Investigators say a Dodge Charger driven by a 29-year-old Evansville woman missed a stop sign at W CTH B and hit a loaded Mack dump truck that was westbound on the highway.
The woman and a five-year-old boy in the car were both thrown from the vehicle. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. The boy was taken to the hospital with critical injuries.
A two-month-old girl in the car was not hurt.
The driver of the dump truck was also unhurt.