Trucker arrested in crash that killed 5 in Nebraska
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Authorities have arrested a truck driver involved in a fiery crash that killed a young Minnesota couple and their three children in western Nebraska.
The Nebraska State Patrol says the crash happened Sunday morning near Brule when the truck struck a van on westbound Interstate 80. Three more vehicles soon were involved.
The patrol hasn't released the names of those killed, but relatives identified them to the Omaha World-Herald as Jamison and Kathryne Pals of St. Paul and their three children, Ezra, Violet and Calvin, aged, 3, 1 and 2 months. Karen Pals, a sister-in-law from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, says they were traveling to Colorado for missionary training.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Six people in the other vehicles were hospitalized.
The driver was arrested for suspicion of vehicular homicide. Court records don't show whether he's been formally charged.