By Associated Press - Thursday, November 23, 2017

MITCHELL, Neb. (AP) - Authorities say a woman injured in a western Nebraska crash has died at an Omaha hospital.

Nebraska state trooper Manuel Jimenez reported Wednesday that 41-year-old Cherie Knaub had died. She’d been injured early Monday morning when her vehicle ran into the back of a truck stopped at railroad tracks along U.S. Highway 26 just west of Mitchell.

She was flown to a Scottsbluff hospital before being taken to Omaha.



Authorities say the truck driver wasn’t hurt.

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