SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. (AP) — A 12-year-old western Nebraska boy injured in a car crash earlier this week has died.

Nebraska State Patrol Lt. Jamey Balthazor said Robert Canseco of Scottsbluff died Friday.

Conseco was injured Wednesday when the teenage girl driving the vehicle he was in failed yield and struck a pickup truck.

Conseco and another 12-year-old in the same vehicle, Eli Aguilar Jr. of Gering, were both seriously injured.

Both boys were taken to Children’s Hospital in Denver for treatment, and Conseco died there.