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Authorities say a Missouri woman and her 11-year-old daughter were killed in an accident in southeast Nebraska.
The Seward County Sheriff’s Office says the accident occurred around 6:45 a.m. Friday on Interstate 80. The office says a westbound car veered left across the median, across the eastbound lanes and down an embankment, where it struck the bottom.
Two Taylorsville men died from injuries sustained in an early Monday morning crash on Interstate 80 near the Salt Lake-Tooele county line.
The Utah Highway Patrol identified the victims as Spencer W. Gardner, 28, and Andrew J. Harrie, 30.
About 3:30 a.m. Monday, Gardner was driving his black 2006 Scion eastbound when he drifted off the freeway and rolled about 10 miles west of Salt Lake City.
The cause of the crash was under investigation, but troopers were considering the possibility that Gardner fell asleep at the wheel.
A Pensacola, Florida, man has died in a crash on a Nebraska roadway.
The Lincoln Journal Star reports that 45-year-old Frank Schofield died Sunday afternoon in a single vehicle crash on Interstate 80 two miles east of Elm Creek in central Nebraska.
The Nebraska State Patrol says Schofield was driving a pickup eastbound when it crossed the median and both lanes of westbound traffic, then rolled.
The Patrol says Schofield was not wearing a seat belt and was thrown from the pickup.
He was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney, where he was pronounced dead.