A 28-year-old Crete man died early Thursday morning after a head-on crash southwest of Lincoln, the Lancaster County Sheriff said.
Abraham Raymundo was driving his 2004 Toyota Corolla south on Southwest 100th Street just before 2 a.m. when the driver of a northbound 2004 Toyota Highlander tried to pass another vehicle and hit the car head-on, Sheriff Terry Wagner said.
A deputy working nearby heard the crash and radioed it in, he said.
A helicopter flew Raymundo to Bryan West Campus, where doctors rushed him to surgery, Wagner said. He died at 6:20 a.m.
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Rescue crews took his passenger, a 19-year-old Crete woman, to the hospital in an ambulance, the sheriff said, adding that doctors think she鈥檒l live.
The driver of the Highlander SUV, 54-year-old Diep Dong of Lincoln, wasn鈥檛 hurt, Wagner said.
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Dong was wearing a seat belt, he said. Investigators don鈥檛 know if Raymundo and his passenger were buckled in.
Dong was passing in a no-passing zone, but officers haven鈥檛 issued a citation, the sheriff said.
鈥淲e鈥檙e still working to piece all this together.鈥
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