Minnesota woman killed in Nebraska I-80 crash

Published 9:32 pm Tuesday, August 22, 2017

OMAHA, Neb. — Authorities said a Creighton University student and resident of Minnesota traveling in Nebraska to see a total solar eclipse has died in crash on Interstate 80.

The Omaha World-Herald reports that 19-year-old Joan Ocampo-Yambing, of Rosemount was in the back seat of a car on Interstate 80 in Omaha on Monday morning when a semitrailer slammed into the back of the car, causing a four-vehicle pileup. Ocampo-Yambing died in the crash. Three other Creighton students in the car and two people in another car were seriously injured.

More than 800 people filled a church on the Creighton University campus in Omaha on Monday evening to mourn Ocampo-Yambing.

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She was a computer science major who would have started her sophomore year at Creighton this week. She was a dean’s fellow at the university and also was involved in campus ministry, helping to tend to students’ spiritual and religious needs.