{"id":64931,"date":"2018-05-07T05:18:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T05:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=64931"},"modified":"2018-05-07T05:18:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T05:18:23","slug":"officials-say-at-least-5-dead-after-i-80-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/officials-say-at-least-5-dead-after-i-80-crashes.html","title":{"rendered":"Officials say at least 5 dead after I-80 crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Officials say at least 5 dead after I-80 crashes<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

At least five people died in three crashes close together on Interstate 80 in eastern Nebraska.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Nebraska State Patrol closed 13 miles of eastbound I-80 near Milford, Nebraska, for several hours after the crashes on Sunday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n

One semitrailer truck caught fire, and the Nebraska State Patrol helicopter landed on the interstate to assist.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nebraska 511 reported that I-80 eastbound between 13 miles east of York and 15 miles west of Lincoln was shut down. They now report traffic is moving again.<\/span><\/p>\n

Seward County Sheriff Joe Yocum says the first crash happened after a westbound vehicle crossed the median and struck an eastbound vehicle<\/span><\/p>\n

The driver of the westbound vehicle was from Clinton Iowa and drifted toward the shoulder and hit the rumble bars, after that they over-corrected through the median.<\/span><\/p>\n

The car was then struck by an eastbound vehicle. Three people in the backseat of the westbound vehicle were ejected, they were not wearing seatbelts.<\/span><\/p>\n

The front seat passenger was wearing a seatbelt but she too was killed.<\/span><\/p>\n

The drivers of both cars survived the crash.<\/span><\/p>\n

This was one of several accidents under investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Nebraska State Patrol tweeted, “It’s been a bad day on I-80 between Lincoln and York with multiple fatality crashes.<\/span><\/p>\n

There have been crashes at mile markers 381, 378, and 367. The NSP helicopter landed on the interstate to assist at mile marker 367.<\/span><\/p>\n

Four people in the westbound vehicle died, and the driver of the eastbound vehicle was taken to the hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n

One other person died in one of the subsequent crashes that followed the initial one.<\/span><\/p>\n

That crash occurred near mile marker 378 Sunday morning when the semi truck 33-year-old Abdiaziz Jama of Columbus Ohio was driving failed to slow down and rear-ended another semi.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jama was killed in the crash.<\/span><\/p>\n

The initial crash caused a chain reaction that included a third semi and a 2013 Dodge Ram.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jama’s passenger, 30-year-old Mohamed Abdullahi was transported to a nearby hospital with non-lie-threatening injuries.<\/span><\/p>\n

Investigators believe Jama may have been texting at the time of the crash.<\/span><\/p>\n

The names of the crash victims were not immediately released on Sunday afternoon.<\/span><\/p>\n

Please use caution on the roads and always buckle up.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-http:\/\/www.wowt.com\/content\/news\/Deadly-crashes-shut-down-part-of-Interstate-80-481863381.html<\/span><\/p>\n

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