Multiple ambulances respond to Highway 75 crash

NEBRASKA CITY - An Auburn woman said she and her husband amazingly escaped an Highway 75 traffic accident Wednesday as a slower-traffic lane ended at the end of the S-curves south of Nebraska City.

Four ambulances and fire units from Auburn, Peru and Nebraska City responded to the crash involving five vehicles, including a Minnesota freight truck. At least two people were transported by ambulance.

The Auburn woman said the truck and semi-trailer was using the slow-traffic lane on the north end of the lane. She and several other vehicles were behind the truck. Another car was in the adjacent northbound lane, but not moving fast enough to get around the truck before the lane ended. She said it appeared evident that the truck was forced into merging or going off the road.

She suspects the driver of the car realized the predicament and attempted to make space using the southbound lane, but collided with a southbound vehicle. She said the car bounced back into the truck.

Debris was soon scattered across all lanes and two other cars were damaged before the vehicles came to rest.

The Nemaha County Sheriff's Office conducted an initial investigation, but the Otoe County Sheriff Colin Caudill was also at the scene.

Photo by Hank Walters