In the first collision, reported at 1:56 p.m., Jacqueline Montgomery, 45, of Leesburg, Ohio, failed to stop at the stop sign at Township Line Road and Ohio 73 in the township, between Springboro and Waynesville. Montgomery was driving a red 2005 Hyundai south on Township Line Road, according to the patrol.
Her car struck the driver's side of the Carter Lumber truck, driven by 59-year-old William Williamson, of Moraine. The truck was headed east on 73.
"We know that was the first collision," said Doyle Burke, Warren County coroner's chief investigator.
Montgomery suffered serious injuries and was taken to Miami Valley Hospital by CareFlight, Lt. Hamilton said. Williamson suffered minor injuries and was taken by ground transport to Sycamore Hospital.
A witness told police the Hyundai turned into the path of the truck without stopping. The OSP investigation verified that assessment.
"The impact was just tremendous," Clearcreek Twp. Police Chief John Terrill said.
The truck was forced left of center by that first collision and head-on into the Chrysler Town & Country minivan Robert Large was driving, according to the OSP. Mr. and Mrs. Large died at the scene.
Chief Terrill said the minivan and the truck ended up in the yard in front of Patton's Lodge, a business west of Waynesville. The truck apparently continued over the sedan and -- while straddling the two lanes after being forced left of center -- collided with the minivan. A forklift attached to the back of the truck broke loose, Terrill said.
"That broke loose and was tumbling down the highway. Luckily nobody else was coming down the highway at that time," the chief said. He said the fatal crash is the first bad one at the intersection since a dip in the roadway was removed in 2007.
The impairment of the drivers is unknown at this time, according to the patrol, which said the crash remains under investigation.
A receptionist at Carter Lumber Co., in Beavercreek, said the company had no comment.
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