Blowing dust, zero-visibility conditions cause fatal crash in southeast Nebraska

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Windy conditions and blowing dust are to blame in a fatality crash west of Wilber on Monday.

The Nebraska State Patrol said 87-year-old Roger Haake, of Tobias, Nebraska, was killed as the result of a small dust storm passing over Highway 41.

Visibility on the highway was severely reduced by blowing dust, and a GMC Acadia stopped on the roadway because of the conditions around 2:40 p.m. That’s when a semi rear-ended the vehicle, NSP said.

Authorities rushed Haake, who was a passenger in the GMC Acadia, to a hospital in Crete where he was pronounced deceased. The GMC’s driver suffered minor injuries, and the semi’s driver was uninjured.

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