Four Dead, Two Seriously Injured in I-94 Accident Thursday Morning

WISCONSIN -- Four people have died and two have life-threatening injuries after a three-car crash on I-94 in Dane County, Wis.

According to a press release from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, the Wisconsin State Patrol responded to a report of an SUV driving erratically just before 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday.

According to an NBC 15 report, when responding units tried to catch up to the SUV, it turned around in the eastbound lanes of I-94 and began driving against traffic. Officials say the SUV then hit two sedans head on. Three passengers in one sedan were pronounced dead at the scene.

NBC 15 has learned that the victims have been identified as 26 and 28-year-old females from Milwaukee and a 26-year-old male from Waterloo. The driver of that sedan, a 28-year-old male from Whitefish Bay, was extricated and flown to the hospital via Med Flight with life-threatening injuries.

A 23-year-old male from Northbrook, Ill., was also pronounced dead at the scene, authorities say. He was the driver of the second sedan. The driver of the SUV, a 32-year-old male from Waunakee, is in the hospital with critical injuries.

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