On Wednesday, a woman died and two other people were critically injured after a two vehicle collision

According to Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, the accident happened near North Platte, Nebraska when 59 year old Vicky Allen was driving a minivan southbound on U.S. Highway 83 near mile marker 87. She was carrying two passengers, Michelle Heisz, aged 34, and her 3 year old daughter. Allen was driving up a hill and for some reason, crossed the center line and collided head on with a northbound semitrailer truck driven by 29 year old Corey Peters of North Platte.

Michelle Heisz was pronounced dead at the scene. Allen and Heisz’s daughter were hospitalized in critical condition and the child was later flown to Omaha for additional medical treatment. All are from Stapleton, Nebraska. Peters did not have life-threatening injuries.

Authorities said that alcohol was not a factor and that the adults in both vehicles were wearing seat belts and the toddler was in a car seat.

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Linda Proessnecker was injured in a car accident. She was firstly driven in an ambulance to West Holt Memorial Hospital, but it was decided she needed specialist care at Bryan Medical Center so she was flown in a medical helicopter 167 miles from Atkinson, Nebraska, to a hospital in Lincoln.

At the time she did not think about the cost as she assumed it would be covered by her insurance policy.

The air ambulance bill for Linda came to just over $44,000 and luckily for her, her insurance company paid for all but $980 of it.  She is definitely grateful her insurance covered as much as it did, as many are not as lucky.

Now the National Association of Insurance Commissioners in Nebraska are warning people to check what their policies cover or don’t, and have issued an alert about the cost of air ambulances as they have been receiving complaints from those left with huge bills following motor vehicle and other accidents.

Another Nebraskan complained that he took an air ambulance to Omaha with a possible heart attack and assumed he was covered but the particular service he used, LifeNet, was not one of the providers his insurance company had an arrangement with, so although they paid their standard fee, he was faced with a balance to pay to the helicopter company of $32,000.

It is up to the hospitals or the paramedics to call for air transport and at those times the patient is usually too ill to even think of checking their insurance company to see if they are covered for the particular air transport provider.

There are several ways to ensure you are covered, whether using a separate policy or as part of your main health insurance provider so it is worth checking now, before the day you need the transport.

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A jury has awarded $900,000 to an ex train conductor who sued Union Pacific after suffering injuries in a 2010 derailment in Columbus.

It took the jury in Douglas County more than four hours to reach their verdict in favor of 68 year old Loren Sweley of North Platte.

The train was traveling at about 50 mph on a foggy night in January 2010 when it hit a bulldozer doing work on the unlighted track. There was no time to slow or stop the train, as it can take a mile of more to stop a train with 100 cars.  Around 22 cars of the train were derailed and Sweley and the engineer were trapped in the wreckage and had to be cut free.

Sweley suffered severe spinal injuries which needed extensive surgery to fuse some of the vertebrae. He was left unable to work again. The engineer reached a settlement with the company.

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On Thursday evening, three residents from Grand Island were killed in a plane crash in northwest Ohio.

According to authorities the plane had taken off from Central Nebraska Regional Airport just after noon on Thursday and arrived as planned in Washington, Iowa some two hours later. Around 40 minutes later they took off for Findaly, Ohio, stopping in Fort Wayne en route. However, the plane disappeared from the radar in Paudling County at 6 p.m. when it was at around 5,000 feet. The crash site was about 30 miles east of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and 70 miles southwest of Toledo.

The aircraft, a single-engine, four-seat SR22 Cirrus, was registered to Orthopedics Aviation Service, and piloted by 59 year old Dr. Michael McCarty, of Grand Island. His passengers were 65 year old Wayne Weiss, 65, and his wife, Rosalee 62, also of Grand Island. All died in the crash.

The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board went to the scene to survey the crash site and to investigate exactly what happened.

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A man was killed in an accident with a forklift on Monday night.

According to police, 54 year old George Young, of Fremont, was operating a forklift at Midwest Manufacturing and the Menards Distribution Center in Valley Monday night where he was working the late shift. He had been working there for two years.

Police went on to say that when he backed up he pinned himself between the machine and a shelving unit. Employees at the site performed CPR and a helicopter was called to take him to hospital. However he was pronounced dead at the scene shortly before 10.00 p.m.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating the incident and they have revealed that the company was cited in February 2012 and October 2013 for unrelated violations.

Police have classified the incident as an industrial accident but said that an autopsy would be performed on Tuesday morning.

A spokeswoman for Midwest Manufacturing, which is a division of Menards home-improvement stores, refused to comment.

Midwest Manufacturing, which has facilities in nine states, manufactures pre-form trusses for buildings, paver blocks and metal roofs for commercial buildings and residential homes.

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