On Wednesday afternoon, October 19, three teenage boys were seriously injured in Sarpy County in a single vehicle rollover crash.

According to the Sarpy County Sheriff’s Office, the accident happened at about 3 p.m. when the boys were in a 1999 Pontiac Sunfire driving eastbound on Capeheart Road. The driver, 16 year old Braden Springer of Omaha, then lost control on the gravel road west of 96th Street, left the roadway and went into a ditch, then struck a culvert and rolled.

One of the boys was thrown from the car, and the others were trapped in it. Hunter Jacobsen, also 16 of Omaha was in the front seat and both he and the driver were wearing seat belts. The rear seat passenger was Jared Lichliter, aged 15, of Omaha who was not wearing a seat belt.

Two of the boys were taken in an ambulance to the Nebraska Medical Center and one was flown there, where there is no word on their current condition.

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On Monday afternoon, September 12, a multi-vehicle crash caused several injuries.

According to Omaha police, the accident happened near 33rd after Mark Lea of Council Bluffs, Iowa ran a stop sign at Ames Avenue. Having run the stop sign, Lea’s Chevy Blazer was hit on its driver’s side by a westbound Jeep Grand Cherokee. The Blazer then collided with a Nissan Quest minivan. Due to the force of the collisions, the Blazer flipped and Lea was ejected. Lea’s passenger, Scott Harris of Omaha was also injured. They were both taken to CHI Creighton University Medical Center to be treated for non-life threatening injuries.

There were two people in the Nissan Quest Minivan, neither of who were wearing seat belts and they were taken to the same hospital and their injuries are also non-life threatening.

There were three occupants in the Jeep Grand Cherokee, all of who were restrained and they were all uninjured.

If you or a loved one have been injured in an accident in Omaha, please call the Omaha accident attorneys of Harris & Associates, P.C., L.L.O., at (402) 397-1200 or contact us online today. We can help you review your compensation options and ensure you are receiving the compensation you deserve.

On Friday morning, July 22, an elderly man was killed in northwest Omaha in a collision with a dump truck.

According to police, the accident happened shortly after 9 a.m. at the intersection of 171st Street and West Maple Road. Noel G. Lammers, aged 75 was driving an SUV, a 2006 Mazda Tribute, northbound on 171st Street when it collided with a 1996 Peterbilt dump truck which was travelling eastbound. The truck was being driven by 59 year old Ronald L. Nootz of Bellevue and he ran a red light at the intersection colliding with the SUV which had a green light.

The SUV then rolled at least once, and Lammers, who was the only occupant of the vehicle was pronounced dead at the scene.

Nootz was not injured.

The investigation is ongoing and charges are expected to be filed.

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Late on Friday, June 24 a woman was killed by a drunken motorist in northwest Omaha.

According to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, the accident happened when a Chevrolet Aveo with two adults and a child inside was smashed into by a Chevrolet Malibu which was driving without headlights at around 11 p.m. on Sorensen Parkway just west of Wenninghoff Road.

The Malibu had been involved in a previous accident around a mile away and had fled the scene. The driver exited the vehicle just before the car burst into flames and suffered minor injuries and was taken to the Nebraska Medical Center.

A woman in the Chevrolet was killed and the other adult and the child were taken to the Nebraska Medical Center with serious injuries.

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On Monday, March 21 a man died after a fiery accident in Omaha.

According to police the accident happened near 114th and Frances streets around 2 a.m. A silver 2004 Chevy Monte Carlo being driven by 31 year old Blake Ridenour was eastbound on Frances Street before going up a hill and crossing onto 114th Street. Ridenour reportedly ran into at least three mailboxes and crashed into one pickup truck before driving into a yard and colliding head on with a tree and bursting into flames.

Ridenour was trapped inside and when the neighbors saw the vehicle in flames they called 911 and tried to extinguish the flames with fire extinguishers and a garden hose but to no avail. Fire units arrived and extinguished the blaze but were not able to save Ridenour’s life.

Police are investigating if alcohol and speed were factors and closed 114th Street from Frances to Martha streets around 2.15 a.m., re opening the road around 6.15 a.m.

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A man who killed a woman from Valparaiso in a crash was sentenced to 15 to 20 years in jail.

On March 29 this year, 63 year old Kathy Benes was driving to her job at the CenturyLink Center in downtown Omaha. Justin Ayers, aged 36, was traveling at about 100 mph in the eastbound lanes of Maple Street and hit Bene’s Chevrolet Impala in the rear pushing the vehicle over a raised median and into a a westbound pickup truck driven by Teresa Schulz. The impact broke Schulz’s leg and killed Benes.

Ayers’ blood-alcohol content was .156, more than twice the legal limit of .08. He had been working as an electrician in Omaha for eight years where he was struggling with alcohol addiction. He had already been in trouble in Florida for driving drunk.

Ayers was facing a maximum of 20 years in jail but was sentenced to 15 to 20 and under state law has to serve half before he is eligible for parole.

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On Sunday, August 9, two police officers from Omaha were injured in a crash.

According to authorities the accident happened around 6.30 p.m. near 20th and Dodge. Two police officers were driving two cruisers to Douglas Country Department of Corrections taking several people in custody so that they could be booked into the jail. They were traveling toward Dodge Street when a Grand Prix ran a red light and hit the first of the cruisers. The second one was not involved.

The two officers in the first cruiser, Scott Richter and Brian Korth were taken to Nebraska Medicine with what are said to be non life threatening injuries. One of the passengers in the cruiser was also taken to hospital.

The Grand Prix was being driven by 24 year old Bethany Kampe, who had borrowed the vehicle from Alex Thompsett. When he arrived at the scene he saw that his car was totaled and that Kampe had also been taken to hospital with injuries.

Several witnesses saw the crash and confirmed that Kampe had run a red light. In addition she will face charges for driving without a license, although she had confirmed to Thompsett that she had one.

If you or a loved one have been injured in an accident in Omaha, please call the Omaha accident attorneys of Harris & Associates, P.C., L.L.O., at (402) 397-1200 or contact us online today. We can help you review your compensation options and ensure you are receiving the compensation you deserve.

On Monday, June 15, a woman died in a horrific crash in Omaha.

Diedre Toombs, aged 48, lost her husband to cancer in November 2012 and since then she was often unable to sleep at night. When that happened she would drive to the home of one of her three daughters in the middle of the night.

On this particular night, she left home around 2 a.m. and was driving at very high speed east on Sprague Street. She then drove across 52nd Street at the intersection, still at a high rate of speed and then went down an embankment and crashed into two utility poles in a parking lot at the Omaha Home for Boys.

Toombs was not wearing a seatbelt and was ejected from the car. She was pronounced dead at the scene and police said that the accident was due to the fact she was driving at excessive speed and her death due to the fact she was not wearing a seat belt.

When neighbors saw the police outside her home they called her daughters, who then went to the scene only to discover that she had died.

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A state legislative committee has been told that the number of vehicle accident reports which have to be filled out is preventing police officers from Omaha and Lincoln from fighting crime.

However, the committee was also told that the police play a vital role in issuing the impartial accident report which often prevents costly lawsuits.

There are two key proposals. The first is to limit accident reports to those crashes with more than $5,000 of property damage in metropolitan cities in the state, such as Omaha, and $1,000 elsewhere rather than the current limit of $1,000 which applies everywhere.

Apparently the limit has not been increased since 2003 and about half of the 8,600 crashes in Omaha in 2012 were under $5,000 so it could save around 45 minutes an accident freeing the police for other matters such as fighting crime on the streets.

However lobbyists for insurance companies and trial attorneys opposed the idea, saying that motorists rely on the impartial report by the police to help sort out who was at fault and whose insurance policy will pay the damages and if there were no accident report there would be more lawsuits to determine who was at fault and the police would be called to testify, which would take much longer than the 45 minutes needed to fill out the report in the first place.

The second proposal was to charge a $15 fee for a copy of an accident report which currently costs $5 from the Omaha Police Department, although that received little support.

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On Saturday night there was a single vehicle crash which resulted in a fatality on Highway 75.

According to authorities, the accident happened at around 8.15 p.m. on Highway 75 just south of the Q street overpass. A 2003 Honda Accord was heading southbound, being driven by 19 year old Zaiid Sharif Zakir Ibn El Gaines Liwaru at a high rate of speed and left the roadway, flew down an embankment and smashed into a chain link fence next to a Union Pacific rail line.

The victim, who was not wearing a seat belt, was taken to Nebraska Medicine in a very grave condition, and he died there shortly afterwards.

Liwaru was a 2013 graduate of Omaha North High School. There he served on multiple leadership boards for organizations, and was crowned Homecoming Prince. On Monday night, his classmates held a memorial service.

The investigation is ongoing into the accident.

If you or a loved one have been injured in an accident in Omaha, please call the Omaha accident attorneys of Harris & Associates, P.C., L.L.O., at (402) 397-1200 or contact us online today. We can help you review your compensation options and ensure you are receiving the compensation you deserve.