{"id":388327,"date":"2026-01-05T01:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T01:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/388327\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T01:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T01:25:07","slug":"rural-adams-man-dies-in-crash-near-sterling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/388327\/","title":{"rendered":"Rural Adams man dies in crash near Sterling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">STERLING, Neb. (News Channel Nebraska) &#8211; Johnson County authorities are reporting a crash that happened early Friday morning, one mile west of Sterling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Johnson County Attorney Ben Beethe says sheriff\u2019s officers received an emergency call about a single-vehicle crash involving a pickup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 2005 Dodge Ram was driven by 74-year-old James Young, of rural Adams. He was declared dead at the scene of the mishap. Authorities said he was using a safety restraint at the time of the crash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Johnson County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Nebraska State Patrol are investigating the crash. Sterling Fire and Rescue responded to the scene, at around 1:20 a.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Authorities said it\u2019s not known at this time whether traffic speed or alcohol use were factors in the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1011now.com\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our 10\/11 NOW daily digest and breaking news alerts delivered straight to your email inbox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KOLN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STERLING, Neb. (News Channel Nebraska) &#8211; Johnson County authorities are reporting a crash that happened early Friday morning,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24366,146238,4,450,15441,24949,451,6135,3,5636,64193,452,453],"class_list":["post-388327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-accident","tag-adams","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-crash","tag-dies","tag-headlines","tag-man","tag-news","tag-rural","tag-sterling","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}