Weather Blamed For 11-Vehicle Pileup On Nebraska Interstate

An Indiana man was flown to a hospital in Kearney with life-threatening injuries after being injured in an 11-vehicle pileup Wednesday morning on Interstate 80 between Giltner and Aurora. Nebraska State Patrol spokesman Cody Thomas said Jason Palmer was one of three injured in the chain-reaction crashes that started about 9:10 a.m. Thomas said Hamilton County got a 911 call that two semitrailers had crashed and jackknifed, blocking eastbound traffic on I-80 four miles west of the Aurora exit. While troopers and deputies were on the way there, additional vehicles became involved, he said.