STURGIS, S.D. – Authorities have identified a Union Center woman who died in a two-vehicle crash Saturday, Sept. 6, 15 miles northwest of Union Center, SD.
Preliminary crash information indicates 83-year-old Sharon Frances Herron, the driver of a 2020 Honda Civic, was traveling eastbound on Chaffee Place, a one lane, public maintained gravel road. At the same time, 19-year-old Emma Jean Radabaugh of Enning, the driver of a 2002 Ford F350, was traveling westbound on Chaffee Place. As both vehicles crested a hill, they collided head-on.
Herron died at the scene. Radabaugh sustained minor injuries.
The South Dakota Highway Patrol is investigating the crash.