NEBRASKA TROOPERS' CARS STRUCK BY DRIVER

An Omaha woman struck two Nebraska State Patrol cruisers with her car on Friday morning, according to a news release from the patrol.

No one was seriously injured in the crash, which occurred shortly after 9 a.m. Friday on the eastbound Maple Street on ramp to the Interstate 680 southbound. The troopers units were parked on the shoulder as part of a special enforcement, utilizing the Nebraska State Patrol aircraft.

The two Nebraska State Patrol units were parked on the far inside right-hand shoulder of the on-ramp when the crash happened, the release said. A 1994, green, four-door Mitsubishi Diamante driven by Svetlana Driscoll, 33, of Omaha, struck the left rear of the first unit, pushing into the back of the second unit.

Both troopers involved in the crash were sitting in their vehicles at the time of impact. Driscoll was not injured. The trooper in the first unit was taken to the hospital to be checked out. The second trooper did not require medical attention. Driscoll was cited on suspicion of driving on the shoulder. Early Friday, the patrol said she had also been cited on suspicion of driving on a suspended license, but they said late Friday that a clerical error was fixed and Driscoll does not face that charge. This is the fourth time in the past six months a Nebraska State Patrol unit has been struck while a trooper was working while alongside a Nebraska highway. In February, two suspected drunken drivers ran into the back of a state patrol Durango while the trooper monitored flood waters near the Platte River Bridge.