STANTON, Neb. – The Stanton County Sheriff’s Office responded to two accidents within less than a mile of each other before 8:00 Tuesday morning.

Shortly after 7:00 a.m., authorities responded to a two-vehicle accident involving a semi-tractor trailer and a pickup seven miles south of Stanton on Highway 57.

Stanton County Sheriff Mike Unger says a northbound pickup missed its turn and began to back up on the highway, at which point it was struck by a northbound semi. The pickup driver, 53-year-old Jorge Estrada-Sandoval, of Columbus, was transported to Faith Regional in Norfolk for possible internal injuries. The semi driver was uninjured.

While responding to the first accident, another crash was reported just north of the scene on Highway 57, where a FedEx van struck a deer. The accident blocked a portion of the northbound lane while the FedEx van was moved and secured.

The driver of the FedEx van was not injured.

A third accident was later reported on Highway 275 shortly after 8:00 a.m., with multiple people facing "serious to critical" injuries, according to Unger.