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Man faces jail time for causing fatal Kearney County crash

fatal-accidentMINDEN, Neb. (AP) — A 37-year-old Minden man faces up to a year in jail for causing a crash that killed another Minden man earlier this year.

Jason Fiske pleaded no contest Thursday to misdemeanor vehicular homicide. A no contest plea is one in which the defendant neither admits nor denies guilty, but acknowledges that prosecutors have enough evidence to convict.

Prosecutors say Fiske was driving a pickup on June 8 when he rear-ended a car driven by 62-year-old Neil Jurgens on Highway 34 in Kearney County. The crash forced Jurgens’ car into oncoming traffic, where it was hit by another pickup. Jurgens was pronounced dead at the scene.

Fiske is set to be sentenced on Feb. 9.

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