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ELMWOOD, Neb. — The 24-year-old driver of a pickup truck that crashed into an ambulance near Elmwood last month tested negative for drugs and alcohol, said Cass County Attorney Nathan Cox.
William “B.J.” Whitlatch of rural Syracuse, was driving east on U.S. 34 at about 10:20 p.m. when his 2002 Ford Ranger drifted into oncoming traffic and collided head-on with a Weeping Water Rescue ambulance that was taking a patient to a Lincoln hospital, according to the Cass County Sheriff’s Office.
Whitlatch died at the scene. The driver of the ambulance, 51-year-old Robert “Bob” Hanes Sr., was taken by helicopter to Bryan West Campus, where he later died.
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