LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a woman who was fatally injured when her vehicle struck the back of a dump truck near Malcolm.
The woman died Monday afternoon after her sport utility vehicle hit the truck, which had stopped on a gravel road and was waiting to turn into a construction site.
The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office says rescue workers tried to revive the woman and called for a medical helicopter, but she died at the scene.
The Sheriff’s Office identified her as 74-year-old Veda Beckman, who lived in rural Pleasant Dale. The truck driver was identified as 55-year-old Madonna Rairigh, of Crete, who wasn’t injured.