One Person Dead in U.S. 77 Accident, North of Beatrice

BEATRICE - One person was killed in a two-vehicle accident late Friday morning, about six miles north of Beatrice on U.S. Highway 77.  A Nebraska State Patrol officer confirmed one fatality in the mishap, where a sport utility vehicle went off the west side of the highway and rolled into a field.  

A second vehicle, a pickup, was involved in the accident.   Beatrice Fire and Rescue responded to the scene.  Captain Corey Lieneman said two people were taken to a Lincoln hospital from the scene, in stable condition. 

EMS personnel were dispatched at 11:53, to the accident just south of the junction of U.S. Highway 77 and Chesnut Road. 

The names of the fatality victim and those injured, were not immediately available.  NSP officers were still investigating on the scene, after two p.m.