Two teens seriously injured in crash on rural northeast Nebraska road

LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) – Two teens were critically injured Sunday afternoon in a crash on a rural road in Stanton County.

The sheriff’s office said deputies were alerted to the crash east of Norfolk around 4:30 p.m. from an automatic cell phone crash notification.

An eastbound SUV left the road and went in the air, striking a power pole and rolling over in a grove of trees, according to the sheriff’s office.

The passenger, a 15-year-old girl, was not wearing a seat belt and had been ejected from the vehicle.  She was flown to a hospital in Omaha.

The driver, a 16-year-old girl, was wearing a seat belt, the sheriff’s office said.  She was taken to a hospital in Norfolk.

Both girls suffered critical injuries.

Investigators think “inexperience and speed” were factors in the crash.