MISSOULA - Authorities say a 44-year-old Stevensville woman has been killed in a three-car accident in Missoula.

Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Sean Finley said Kerina A. Rose was driving Wednesday afternoon when she stopped for a dog that was crossing Mullan Road. A man in a pickup truck rear-ended her and forced her car into the path of another pickup.

Rose, a University of Montana student who was student teaching in the Frenchtown area, was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead. A passenger in her car and a man in the second pickup truck also were hospitalized.

Finley said it doesn't appear that alcohol played a role in the crash, but criminal charges will probably be filed against the driver of the pickup that rear-ended Rose's vehicle.