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Iowa Man Killed in Dixon County Crash

fatal-accidentLINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska State Patrol says a 69-year-old man from Iowa was killed after his vehicle hit a semitrailer in Dixon County.

Charles Earnest Woods of Spencer, Iowa, was driving a pickup on Monday afternoon in the northeastern Nebraska county.

Authorities say Woods died after he passed a snowplow and struck the tractor-trailer near the intersection of U.S. 20 and Nebraska 116. Paramedics pronounced Woods dead at the scene.

State patrol investigators say the driver of the semitrailer was uninjured.

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