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One Dead in Wellfleet Auto Accident

WELLFLEET, Neb. (AP) – Authorities say a 31-year-old woman died after her sport utility vehicle crashed into a school bus that had stopped at a railroad crossing in western Nebraska. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department says the crash occurred a little before 4:30 p.m. Wednesday at the crossing on U.S. Highway 83 south of Wellfleet. Wellfleet is 23 miles south of North Platte. There was only a driver on the bus. The woman’s 3-year-old daughter was driving with her.
All three were taken to Great Plains Regional Medical Center in North Platte. The little girl and the bus driver were listed in stable condition. The SUV driver had died. Their names have not been released.

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