May 14, 2020

85-year-old dies after crash with semi driven by Kan. man

Posted May 14, 2020 12:00 PM

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP)— A southeastern Nebraska man is dead following a crash involving his all-terrain vehicle and a semitrailer driven by a Kansas man at a rural intersection in Pawnee County east of Beatrice.

The crash happened around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, when an ATV driven by 85-year-old Chuck Thomas, of Liberty, on state Highway 8 turned at the intersection and hit the side of an eastbound semitrailer driven by 33-year-old Erasmo Jasso-Solis of Dodge City.

Pawnee County Sheriff Braden Lang says Thomas died at the scene.  Erasmo Jasso-Solis was not hurt, according to the sheriff's department.