STURGIS, S.D. – The South Dakota Highway Patrol has identified a Newcastle, Wyoming woman killed in a motorcycle crash last week in Sturgis.
Preliminary crash information indicates 60-year-old Heather Lynne Clifton, the driver of a 2015 Harley Davidson motorcycle was traveling west on Interstate 90 on the Exit 32 off-ramp near its intersection with Junction Avenue. A Ford Taurus driven by Leatrice C. Edwards was traveling north on Junction Avenue near the off-ramp. As the motorcycle entered the intersection, it collided with the Taurus, and the rider became separated from the motorcycle.
Clifton was taken to a nearby hospital with life-threatening injuries and died Wednesday from those injuries. Edwards was not injured.
The South Dakota Highway Patrol is investigating the crash.
