Floods, freezing rain, snow in US Midwest

Updated February 21 2018 - 9:23am, first published 9:20am
A motorist stops to clear ice from his windscreen wipers in Lawrence, Kansas.
A motorist stops to clear ice from his windscreen wipers in Lawrence, Kansas.

A storm system which has brought rain, ice and snow to the US Midwest and Great Plains was being blamed for fatal crashes in three states, including an accident that left four dead in Nebraska.