
Associated Press - September 18, 2009 12:05 PM ET
SOUTH YANKTON, Neb. (AP) - A northeast Nebraska man who was pinned under a car he was working on died before he could be rescued.
Sheriff Larry Koranda of Cedar County says Ralph Vornhagen had been working on own his car around 3 p.m. Thursday at his home in South Yankton.
Authorities say the 61-year-old Vornhagen died before the car could be lifted off him.
Koranda says Vornhagen's death is being ruled an accident.
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