{"id":403436,"date":"2026-01-12T18:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/403436\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T18:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:48:20","slug":"2-drivers-die-after-collision-near-pierce-in-northeast-nebraska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/403436\/","title":{"rendered":"2 drivers die after collision near Pierce in Northeast Nebraska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PIERCE, Neb. (KTIV) &#8211; Two drivers have died, and a passenger was sent to the hospital, after a crash last week in Northeast Nebraska. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Pierce County Sheriff\u2019s Office says two vehicles collided on Highway 98, about two miles east of the town of Pierce. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">At about 9:15 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 9, the sheriff\u2019s office says 46-year-old Marco Antonio Ordonez was driving on Highway 98 when their vehicle crossed the center line and struck another vehicle. Ordonez was pronounced deceased at the crash scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the sheriff\u2019s office, the second vehicle\u2019s driver was 68-year-old Ronald Woslager, who was taken to a Norfolk, Nebraska, hospital where he died from his injuries. His wife, 66-year-old Jean Woslager, was also taken to the Norfolk hospital before being transferred to Omaha. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The crash is still being investigated as of Monday, Jan. 12, 2026. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Want to get the latest news and weather from Siouxland\u2019s News Source? Follow these links to download our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktiv.com\/page\/get-the-new-ktiv-news-app\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ktiv.com\/page\/get-the-new-ktiv-news-app\/\">KTIV News app<\/a> and our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktiv.com\/page\/get-the-ktiv-weather-app\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ktiv.com\/page\/get-the-ktiv-weather-app\/\">First Alert Weather app<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KTIV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PIERCE, Neb. (KTIV) &#8211; Two drivers have died, and a passenger was sent to the hospital, after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-403436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403436","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=403436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}