RAPID CITY, S.D. – The South Dakota Highway Patrol has identified the five people who died in a single vehicle crash late Wednesday evening, October 1, three miles east of Scenic, SD.
The highway patrol reports preliminary crash information indicates 24-year-old Chad Lee Doyle, Jr. of Wanblee was driving a 2004 Honda Pilot eastbound on SD Highway 44 near mile marker 90 and failed to negotiate a curve.
The vehicle entered the north ditch and struck an embankment. The vehicle then became engulfed in flames.
Doyle and four passengers, 23-year-old Byron Joey Bear Killer oF Allen, 24-year-old Twila Whitney Hard Heart of Rapid City, 33-year-old Danielle Lee Long Soldier of Wanblee, and a 10-year-old female, who was not identified, died at the scene.
The South Dakota Highway Patrol is continuing to investigate the crash.