Rural Champaign County crash kills three

Three people died in a crash in Ludlow Township in Champaign County Tuesday afternoon. In a press release, the Champaign County Sheriff’s Police say they were called to a crash between a pick up and a car in rural Ludlow just before five last night. When they got there, deputies say they found the driver of the pick-up, a 62-year-old man from Paxton and the driver of the car, a 56-year-old woman from Paxton had died at the scene of the crash. A passenger in the car, a 30-year-old Ludlow woman was taken to the hospital where she later died of her injuries. The cause of the crash is under investigation.