BIRCH RUN TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- Police continue to investigate a crash that claimed the lives of a Saginaw County man and his 5-year-old daughter.

The crash happened just before 8 a.m. at the intersection of Busch and Dehmel roads in Saginaw County’s Birch Run Township.

Police said the crash was caused because a motorist ran a stop sign. A woman driving a black van was eastbound on Busch Road.

Police said she apparently ran a stop sign and hit corner-to-corner with a white van that was headed north on Dehmal Road.

A man and his young daughter were in the white van and both were killed.

Police have identified them as Daniel Long, 43, and Emily Long, a kindergartener.

The impact of the crash was so strong it carried the white van into a trailblazer that was also stopped at the intersection.

That motorist was not hurt. The Jaws of Life were used to free the woman from the black van and she was taken to a Covenant Medical Center.

Police said the woman who ran the stop sign told them she was blinded by the sun and police said the intersection is very dangerous.