ROYAL, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a passenger in a sport utility vehicle driven by his wife has died after the SUV ran into two cows and then a tree in northeast Nebraska.

The accident occurred a little before 11 p.m. Sunday on U.S. Highway 20, about a mile west of Royal. Antelope County Sheriff Bob Moore says the eastbound SUV struck the cows on the roadway and went out of control, running into a roadside ditch and striking the tree.

The passenger died at the scene. Moore identified him as 63-year-old Rodney Zwygart, of rural Norfolk. Zwygart’s wife, 55-year-old Marilyn Zwygart, was taken to a Plainview hospital for treatment. Two other passengers were taken to a Neligh (NEE’-lee) hospital and then transferred to Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.