MAY 23, 2015
OMAHA, NEBRASKA
Speed and alcohol are considered factors in an Omaha crash
that killed one person and sent another to the hospital with life-threatening
injuries Saturday morning.
Police say the driver of a car heading eastbound on L Street
lost control, went across several lanes of traffic, hit a fence and crashed
into a parked cement truck at Ready Mix Concrete near South 36th Street just
before 1 a.m.
The driver, 22-year-old Michael Harnett of Bellevue, was
ejected from the car, which burst into flames. His passenger, whose name has
not yet been released, was pronounced dead at the scene. Harnett was taken to
Nebraska Medicine with a serious head injury.
L Street was closed between 36th and 39th streets until 5:30
a.m.