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Dec 29, 2023

Names released from Highway 20 accident

Additional information, including the names of the deceased, was provided Friday

Additional information, including the names of the deceased, was provided Friday afternoon concerning a fatality accident on Highway 20 early Thursday morning.

Pierce County Attorney Ted M. Lohrberg said a white 2017 Ford Fusion operated by Lee Tyus Jr., 36, of Cottage Grove, Minnesota, was traveling westbound on Highway 20 near Mile Marker 372 in Pierce County.

The vehicle crossed the center line and collided head-on with a 2022 Peterbilt tractor and side dump trailer operated by Warren Montgomery, 71, Orchard, Lohrberg said.

The passenger of the Ford Fusion, Lauri Ann Bedeaux, 49, Hastings, Minnesota, was dead at the scene. Tyus Jr. was taken from the scene by Randolph Rescue to Faith Regional Health Services in Norfolk. He was later transported the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha for further treatment, Lohrberg said.

Montgomery was taken by private vehicle to CHI Health-Plainview and then to a hospital in Sioux City, he said.

Original story posted April 20 at 3:39 p.m.

A Minnesota woman was killed and two other people transported to the hospital following an accident early Thursday morning on Highway 20 in northern Pierce County.

According to a press release from Pierce County Sheriff Rick Eberhardt, the accident happened at 4:50 a.m. between a car and semi on Highway 20, about 2 miles west of the Highway 81 intersection.

The accident occurred when a westbound Minnesota passenger vehicle crossed the center line and struck an eastbound Nebraska semi-tractor trailer, according to the release. A 49-year-old Minnesota woman was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the release.

The 36-year-old Minnesota male driver was transported to Faith Regional Health Services in Norfolk and then to the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.

The driver of the semi, a 71-year-old Orchard man, was transported to the Plainview Hospital and then to a Sioux City hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The names of those involved in the accident are being withheld pending notification of relatives. Highway 20 reopened at about noon.

The Pierce County Sheriff's Office, Osmond Fire and Rescue, along with Randolph Fire and Rescue, Wausa Rescue and the Nebraska State Patrol, all responded.

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