LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – A worker with Lincoln Transportation and Utilities was recognized on Monday for his efforts to help save a contractor who was hit by a semi-truck trailer back in July.
At the regular Lincoln City Council meeting, Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird bestowed her office’s Award of Excellence to Jess Sundeen, a senior engineering technician with LTU, for the category of Valor and Bravery.
Gaylor Baird said that on July 7, Sundeen was out at a worksite in the Highlands neighborhood with a contractor doing a pavement inspection when the contractor was hit by the trailer of a passing semi-truck…