In an update to our previous reports, the Iowa State Patrol Thursday (Today), said two women were transported to separate hospitals following a motorcycle accident late Wednesday morning. According to the Patrol, 67-year-old Ellen Lloyd, of La Vista, Nebraska, was driving a 2017 Harley Davidson westbound on Interstate 80 near mile marker 63. She was in stop-and-go traffic  associated with the construction zone, and braked hard. When she slammed on the brakes, her passenger, 47-year-old Tiffany Reiss, of Raymond, Nebraska, began to fall off the motorcycle.

While Lloyd and Reiss fell onto the travel portion of the road, the motorcycle continued off the road, and into the ditch. Authorities say Ellen Lloyd was transported by ambulance to the Cass County Memorial Hospital. Tiffany Reiss was flown by LifeNet helicopter to the University of Nebraska Medical Center, in Omaha. A report on their conditions was not available.