Deadly weekend on roads

It was a deadly weekend on Nebraska roads with three people killed and five others sent to hospitals following traffic accidents.

Ramona White, 78, of Omaha was pronounced dead at the scene of a two-vehicle accident Saturday near Humphrey, according to investigators for the Platte County Sheriff's Office.

White was eastbound on Nebraska Highway 91 about 6 p.m. in a 2005 Suzuki Forenza when it collided with the rear end of a grain trailer being pulled by a tractor. The driver of the tractor, Arthur Olmer, 78, of Humphrey was not injured.

Earlier Saturday, a head-on crash in northeast Nebraska claimed the life of a man from Jackson and sent another man and three children to a hospital.

Dakota County Sheriff's Office investigators, said Matthew Sandness, 26, of Ponca was heading west on Nebraska Highway 12 near Ponca around 1:30 p.m. when he crossed into the eastbound lane and collided with a tractor-trailer. The tractor-trailer caught fire as it rolled into a nearby ditch. The 59-year-old driver of the rig, Vernon Nelson of Jackson, died at the scene.

Sandness and the three children in the car were sent to a hospital for treatment. The children were treated and released while Sandness is listed in fair condition.

On Sunday, a rural Wood River man suffered fatal injuries in a two-vehicle collision Sunday on U.S. Highway 30 near Gibbon. His name and the name of the driver of the other car have not been released.

According to the Buffalo County Sheriff's Office, the accident occurred about 6:40 p.m., and both drivers were traveling alone. The Wood River man died at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney and the condition of the second driver is not being released.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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