NEBRASKA CITY – The Otoe County Sheriff’s Office reports a traffic fatality on Highway 2 east of Palmyra at 12:38 a.m. on Jan. 15.

A sheriff’s office press release says 45-year-old Michael McClintock of Pawnee City died from injuries. The passengers in the SUV he was driving, a 46-year-old woman and a 27-year-old woman, both of Falls City, were described Saturday afternoon as in critical condition at Bryan LGH West.

The driver of a westbound freight truck, 41-year-old Andrew Kibbe of Fernley, Nev., was treated at Syracuse Area Health Hospital for minor injuries.

The sheriff says the road conditions at the time of the accident were icy with blowing snow.

The press release says the vehicles collided head-on in the westbound lanes of the highway. The area is a divided, four-lane highway with a grass median. Seatbelts were in use in both vehicles.