GEORGETOWN, Ill. (WCIA) -- One person was pronounced dead at the scene of a three-vehicle crash in Georgetown Wednesday afternoon.

According to Captain Michael Hartshorn, at approximately 12:16 p.m., the Vermilion County Sheriff's Department responded to a three-vehicle crash on State Route 1 at 15th Street at the north end of Georgetown. The initial investigation shows that three vehicles were traveling southbound when the rear vehicle tried to pass the middle vehicle.

This vehicle then rear-ended the front vehicle. The passing vehicle then crossed into the northbound lane and struck a northbound vehicle head-on. The passing vehicle had three occupants and the other two vehicles each had one occupant.

One person from the vehicle that was passing the other vehicles was pronounced dead a

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