Crash ki icationers,
injures s 0 tllala
IOWA CITY; Iowa (AP)—The
names of five people, including four
University of Iowa graduate stu
dents from Indonesia, killed in a van
crash in western Nebraska were re
leased Tuesday.
The crash early Monday at a rest
area near Ogallala also injured
seven other students in the van. The
four victims were enrolled in a spe
cial program designed to help them
modernize their nation’s primary
education system.
The students, who are professors
and practicing teachers in Indone
sia, were returning to Iowa City af
ter a sightseeing trip to Mount
Rushmore and Denver when their
van slammed into the back of a
semitrailer truck that was parked off
the side of the road at the rest area.
The Indonesian Ministry of Edu
cation told Iowa officials that the
students’ families have been noti
fied about the crash.
Those killed:
■ Mohammad “Toto” Budaya,
31, male; Institute of Teacher Train
ing and Educational Sciences at
Malang.
■ Dwiyani Kusumastuti, 35, fe
male; Institute of Teacher Training
and Educational Sciences at
Malang.
■ Wahyu Winami, 35, female;
Faculty of Teacher Training and
Educational Sciences at the Univer
sity of Mataram.
■ Agus Sudarso, 29, male; Fac
ulty of Teacher Training and Edu
cational Sciences at the University
of Mataram.
■ Sundari Widiatmo, no age
available, female; wife of Heru
Widiatmo, a student injured in the
crash.
The van driver and six others—
all students — were treated for in
juries. One was in serious condition.
The driver of the truck was asleep
inside the cab and not injured.
“The impact (of the car into the
truck) was apparently great,” Steve
Yussen, dean of the College of Edu
cation, said at a news conference
Monday.
The four graduate students who
died had attended the university for
a year and were enrolled in the
university’s College of Education,
Yussen said.
Iowa is one of three U.S. uni
versities selected to be a host to stu
dents for the Indonesian Primary
Teacher Education Development
Project, which is sponsored by the
World Bank.
There are also two such pro
grams in Australia and one in En
gland.
“We express our deep sorrow at
this terrible tragedy and extend our
sympathy and heartfelt grief to the
friends and families of the students,”
Yussen said.
“We are all deeply saddened by
this tragedy. The students were at
the college and the university to
learn how to make their native coun
try a better place for future genera
tions of children,” he said.
Yussen said there were about 40
Indonesian students on campus and
that they had been told about the
crash. He said they declined to
speak to reporters.
“As you might imagine, the stu
dents are very upset,” he said.
Most of the victims had children,
but they were not living with their
parents in Iowa, said Paul Retish,
director of International Education
in the College of Education.
Investigators would not specu
late on the nature of the accident.
Three of the five victims were
pronounced dead at the scene, Iowa
officials said, and two others died
in the hospital.
Iowa officials said at the news
conference three injured passengers
were in stable condition at Nebraska
hospitals and would be taken to Uni
versity Hospitals in Iowa City.
Four others, including the van’s
driver, were treated for minor inju
ries and released.
Iowa officials said a campus me
morial service is planned, although
there were no immediate details.
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increase
The number of speed
ing tickets issued over
the holiday increased
by nearly 9 percent
from last year.
From Staff Reports
Labor Day weekend speeding cita
tions on Nebraska highways increased
by almost 9 percent over last year’s
citations despite increased speed lim
its on the interstates and several state
highways, according to the State Pa
trol.
Though some highway speed lim
its went from 55 mph to 60 mph on
several state highways over the week
end, the Nebraska Department of
Roads waited until Tuesday to change
the signs to avoid overtime costs. The
speed limit on most parts of Interstate
80 went from 65 mph to 75 mph June
Speeding citations over Labor Day
weekend rose from 743 last year to 807
this year, said Jeff Hanson, public re
lations officer for the Nebraska State
Patrol.
Troopers issue tickets at their own
discretion, Hanson said, and they have
written more tickets for being in the 1
mph to 5 mph over the speed limit cat
egory since the new limits went into
effect.
•
In other State Patrol statistics:
■ Driving while intoxicated arrests
decreased from 34 last year to 30 this
year.
B Child restraint violations re
mained about the same, 20 last year to
21 this year.
B Safety belt citations increased
from 17 last year to 41 this year.
B There were two more fatalities
this year because of a single accident
at an 1-80 rest area west of Ogallala
that claimed the lives of four Univer
sity of Iowa students and a spouse of
one of the students.
Most of the preliminary data comes
from the Combined Accident Reduc
tion Effort or CARE, which is a na
tional program designed to cut down
on traffic incidents on major travel
weekends including Labor Day,
Thanksgiving, Memorial Day and In
dependence Day.
The Lincoln Sheriff’s Department,
Lincoln Police Department and Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln Police re
ported no fatalities. Since many resi
dents and students were out of town, it
was a quiet holiday weekend in Lin
coln.
Divers find missing body
three days after collision
OGALLALA (AP) — Divers
found the body of a Denver man who
was missing since a weekend boating
accident at Lake McConaughy.
Robert Bamt, 68, and his friend,
Betty Carter, 62, were thrown from
Bamt’s fishing boat when a larger boat
collided with it Saturday. Carter, also
of Denver, died in the accident.
Charges were filed Tuesday against
the driver of the large boat, Robert
Allrick, 50, of Longmont, Colo. He
was charged with manslaughter, boat
ing while intoxicated and negligent
operation of a boat.
Allrick was released from the Keith
County Jail on a $25,000 bond.
Nebraska Game and Parks officers
had been searching three days for Bamt
when a dive rescue team recovered his
body Tuesday morning at about 9:30
p.m. "" •
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