Friday Feb 20 2026 - Scanner News

Well unfortunately it was a day filled with several car accidents around the panhandle, at least four that we know of, but fortunately no fatal or serious injuries to our knowledge. Let's take a look.

First, at 5.37 a.m. there was a single vehicle accident near the bridge on the expressway in Scottsbluff, that's Highway 71, mile marker 61. One female transported to regional west. Then at 8.05 a.m. on west 36th and Avenue I, an MVA was reported at 10.45 which is injury accident, but regional 2 had a patient refusal on that one. Then at 8.46, mile marker 176, highway 27th, an iPhone alert came in. It was an MVA rollover with one patient transported to Box Butte General Hospital. And before we get to that last accident, we have a little humor break here.

Trooper 248 and others were out around mile marker 62 on highway 30 westbound chasing four pot belly pigs, making sure that they didn't get onto the highway. They did finally capture two of those four bacon makers, with two others still running north of highway 30. Please watch out if you're in that area.

And finally, at 4:30 there was a two vehicle accident on Hhighway 26 westbound, that's a 10-.45 or injury accident aroundCounty Road 12. Airlink went on standby in case there was need for transport and blood began to be arranged for, but in the end, it was minor injuries only.

A really busy day was traffic on Panhandle Scanner. To listen yourself, just go to PanhandleScanner.com and click on listen.