CUSTER, S.D. – Two men died in a single-vehicle ATV crash Monday, Sept. 1, about seven miles south of Custer, according to the South Dakota Highway Patrol.
Preliminary crash information indicates Curtis Shawn Molone, the driver of a 2023 Can-Am Maverick Side-by-Side, was traveling southbound on Flynn Creek Road. The vehicle failed to negotiate a curve, slid sideways on the gravel road, entered the east ditch and collided with a tree.
Both the driver, Molone, and a passenger, Shawn Lee Malone, died at the scene.
The South Dakota Highway Patrol, an agency of the South Dakota Department of Public Safety, is investigating the crash in the Black Hills. All information released so far is preliminary.