Wisconsin woman killed in I-80 crash

Authorities have released the name of a Wisconsin woman killed in one of two separate but related crashes that occurred within minutes of each other on Interstate 80 Monday shortly before 5 p.m.

Both crashes forced the closure of the westbound lanes near the Greenwood exit for about two hours, said Nebraska State Patrol spokeswoman Deb Collins.

The fatality, 47-year-old Dawn Reiter of Wrightstown, Wis., was a front seat passenger in a westbound Dodge Ram pickup that struck the left rear of a semi, Collins said.

That crash occurred as the semi was stopping for a separate two-vehicle accident at mile marker 413.

In the first crash, Khayriniso Yarbabaeva, 23, of Omaha was driving east when she lost control of a 2000 Mazda Protege.

The car crossed the median and was struck on the passenger side by a westbound 2003 Volkswagen Jetta, driven by Elizabeth Swift, 25, of Yankton, S.D.

Yarbabaeva was transported by Greenwood Rescue to Saint Elizabeth Regional Medical Center in Lincoln, where she was treated and released. Swift was not injured. Both women were wearing seat belts.

The second and fatal crash occurred as traffic was slowing because of the first.

Reiter and three of her family members who were with her in the pickup were taken to BryanLGH Medical Center West — Dawn Reiter and April Reiter by medical helicopter, and Steven Reiter and Tayler Snyder by ambulance, Collins said.

Dawn Reiter’s husband and the driver of the pickup, Steven Reiter, 39, was treated and released, Collins said. April Reiter, 16, and Tayler Snyder, 20, were admitted to the hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries.

Snyder was listed in serious condition Tuesday morning. The hospital did not have any information about either of the Reiters.

The semi driver, Thomas Shutt, 48, of Logan, Iowa, was not injured.