BURKE -- A Malone woman was killed and five others were injured in a three-car crash on U.S. Route 11 on Tuesday evening.

State police say around 4:35 p.m., a 2006 Chevrolet Impala operated by 45 year-old Susan M. Cogan of Malone was travelling west on U.S. Route 11, with two passengers in her vehicle, 67 year-old Richard Feimann Jr. in the rear seat and 53 year-old Donald Burdash in the front.

Cogan was passing several uninvolved vehicles, troopers said.

She struck the passenger side of an eastbound 2005 Hyundai Accent operated by 59 year-old Edward J. Hawks. Hawks had to swerve into the westbound lane of traffic to avoid a head-on collision with Cogan's vehicle.

The third vehicle, a 2006 Chevrolet Malibu, operated by 27 year-old Danielle L. Tower was also eastbound, with a two-year-old rear seat passenger.

Cogan struck Tower's vehicle head on, ejecting Feimann.

Neither Feimann nor Burdash suffered serious injuries, troopers said.

Cogan was transported to Alice Hyde Medical Center, then transferred to the University of Vermont Medical Center where she was pronounced dead.

Hawks received lacerations to his leg. Tower suffered a broken pelvis and leg fractures, troopers said.

The two-year-old in Tower's vehicle had non-life-threatening injuries, troopers said.

The highway was closed for nearly seven hours near the intersection of county Route 29, causing traffic to be diverted from U.S. Route 11 to county Route 23, police said.

The crash remains under investigation by Malone-based state police and the Troop B Collision Reconstruction Unit.