DARLINGTON — A Gratiot woman was taken to a Platteville hospital and later flown by Med Flight helicopter to a Madison hospital for injuries she sustained in a two-vehicle crash Monday afternoon southeast of Belmont.

The accident happened at about 5:25 p.m. at an intersection in the Town of Kendall, according to the Lafayette County Sheriff’s Office.

Tamara K. Halvorson, 50, was eastbound on Truman Road and had the right of way when a southbound driver on Bethel Grove Road pulled his 2018 Chevy Silverado pickup truck into the intersection and hit the driver’s side of Halvorson’s 2004 Dodge Durango SUV.

The pickup driver, Timothy D. Meier, 51, Cuba City, told deputies he stopped at the stop sign.

“It’s a two-way stop intersection, so Ms. Halvorson, she had the right of way,” said Sheriff Reg Gill. “She did not have a stop sign to have to stop, and Mr. Meier was at the stop sign and failed to yield so he will be cited for failure to yield right-of-way from a stop sign.”

The impact of the collision pushed both vehicles southeast, with Halvorson’s SUV overturning.

She was trapped inside, but the Belmont Fire Department and Belmont Rescue Squad were able to remove her. She was taken first by Belmont EMS to Southwest Health in Platteville, then flown by helicopter to the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison for treatment of her injuries.

Meier declined medical treatment at the scene. The accident remains under investigation.