On April 7, 2020, at about 8:20 am, Deputies responded to the area of Mile Marker 295 on Interstate 80 to the report of a single-vehicle rollover accident.
When deputies arrived it was determined that a Red 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt traveling westbound had left the road and entered into the median. When the cobalt came back on to the road it overcorrected and entered into the North ditch and began to roll.
The driver, 48-year-old Leslie McDougald, was pronounced deceased at the scene. The passenger and McDougald’s brother, 40-year-old Tyrell Jefferson, was trapped and had to be extricated.
Jefferson was transported by the Wood River Fire Department to the Kearney Regional Hospital in Kearney where he was treated and released.