A 28-year-old woman died after a van and pickup truck crashed near El Dorado Wednesday night.
Elli Humig of El Dorado was driving a Dodge Caravan west-bound in the 3600 block of SE U.S. Highway 54 around 8:45 p.m.; a five-year-old boy was in the van with her.
The Butler County Sheriff’s Office said the van crossed the center-line and appeared to correct back into the west-bound lane, when an east-bound pickup hit the driver’s-side door.
Humig died at the scene. The child was rushed to a Wichita hospital with critical injuries.
The sheriff’s office said 43-year-old Patrick McConaghie of Yates Center had serious injuries; he was also hospitalized in Wichita.