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Settlement reach in Neb. crash lawsuit
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) _ A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit that said dust from a western Nebraska ranch helped cause an interstate pileup that killed three people. The families of two Colorado women killed in the 2005 pileup on Interstate 80 sued the U-Cross Ranch in Lincoln County District Court. The lawsuit said the ranch did not take proper steps to prevent dust from blowing across the interstate and creating a driving hazard. Authorities had said 54-year-old Jeanne Kerechanin and 46-year-old Pamela Hartman were killed on March 10, 2005, when the car they were in was rear-ended by a semi on I-80. The semi driver, 70-year-old John Latham of Springfield, also died in the crash. Terms of the settlement have not been released.

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