Elkhorn, WI : Four people were killed and four injured in a semitrailer truck crash at Highway K in Sharon Township On Saturday, May 28th, 2016

Four people were killed and four injured Saturday when a semitrailer truck struck a pickup, then veered into an SUV in Walworth County, the Sheriff's Office reported.

The semi was northbound on Highway K in Sharon Township when a Chevy pickup eastbound on Townhall Road went through a stop sign and was broadsided by the semi.

Three of the four people in the Chevy pickup were killed; the fourth was flown to a hospital and was in critical condition.

An SUV southbound on Highway K was also struck. One of two people in that GMC Envoy was killed and the other taken to a hospital with critical injuries.

The driver and a passenger in the semi were also taken to hospitals with multiple injuries.

Names of the victims and the semi driver were not released, pending notification of relatives and further investigation of the crash, according to the Sheriff's Office.

More than a dozen agencies from Wisconsin and Illinois responded to the crash.

Jill Carnegie, who operates Valley of the Kings wildlife sanctuary just east of the crash site, said roads leading to the intersection were still blocked hours later.

"One of our volunteers heard the crash shortly after 10 a.m." Carnegie said, and noted it can take emergency responders quite a while to get to the area. The Sheriff's Office release stated its deputes arrived at 11:45 a.m.

Carnegie said a motorcyclist was killed at the intersection last May, also because he ignored a stop sign on Townhall Road and was hit by a semitrailer truck.

But she was surprised to learn the pickup in Saturday's crash was eastbound. She said westbound drivers are more apt to miss the stop sign, and not notice southbound traffic on K, because of foliage from a tree nursery on the northeast corner of

the intersection.

"We see people blow that stop sign all the time," she said.

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4 dead, 4 injured in Walworth County crash