Driver Identified In Thursday’s Fatal Crash East of Lincoln

The scene of a deadly crash from early Thursday afternoon in the area of 134th and Adams. View is looking northeast. (Jeff Motz/KFOR News)

LINCOLN–(KFOR Oct. 27)–Lancaster County Sheriff’s investigators on Friday identified the driver killed in Thursday afternoon’s two vehicle crash at 134th and Adams as 19-year-old Carter Smith, who lived in the northeast part of the county.

Chief Deputy Ben Houchin says there is nothing from their investigation at this point that shows speed was a factor.

The driver of the eastbound box truck, 45-year-old Tremaine Piggee of Arlington, Texas, was not injured. Houchin says the investigation shows that Smith’s SUV failed to yield at a stop sign heading south and collided with the eastbound truck.