CORNELL, Wis. — Four people were killed and five others were injured in a two-vehicle crash near Cornell in northwestern Wisconsin, authorities said.

Chippewa County Sheriff Jim Kowalczyk said the crash happened around 5 p.m., Saturday, when a northbound minivan either failed to yield or ran a stop sign and collided with a westbound pickup truck towing a trailer at the intersection of Highways G and 64.

The sheriff’s office named the dead as Mikaila S. Toske, 23, Raven A. Ellin, 21, Jonathan J. Jorgensen, 36, all of Eau Claire; and Kristine J. Kummer, 46, of Medford.

Toske, Ellin, and Jorgensen were passengers in the minivan while Kummer was a passenger in the pickup truck, which was pulling a trailer and headed to car races in Rice Lake. All four died at the scene.

Five survivors, including the two drivers, were taken to Eau Claire hospitals with nonlife-threatening injuries.

The Wisconsin State Patrol was doing a reconstruction of the accident. Cornell is about 30 miles northeast of Eau Claire.

In South Dakota, police said five people including a pregnant woman died Saturday in a head-on crash on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the southwestern part of the state.

It happened on Highway 44, about 5 miles west of Wanblee.

Associated Press