CUSTER, S.D. – The highway patrol has identified two men died in a single vehicle ATV crash on Monday, Sept. 1, seven miles south of Custer, SD.
Preliminary crash information indicates 60-year-old Curtis Shawn Molone of Long Pine, Nebraska, the driver of a 2023 Can-Am Maverick Side-by-Side, was traveling southbound on Flynn Creek Road. Failing to negotiate a curve, the vehicle slid sideways on the gravel road, entered the east side ditch and collided with a tree. Both the driver and passenger, 41-year-old Shawn Lee Malone of Ainsworth, Nebraska, died at the scene.
The South Dakota Highway Patrol is investigating the crash.