TODD COUNTY, S.D.- Authorities have identified two people who died in a two-vehicle crash early Friday morning, seven miles north of Mission, SD.
Preliminary crash information indicates 73-year-old Priscilla M. Wagner of Laurel, Delaware, the driver of a 2023 Kenworth T680, was traveling northbound on US Highway 83 near mile marker 29. At the same time, 65-year-old Kenneth George Peters of Torrington, Wyoming, the driver of a Ford F250 was traveling southbound and sideswiped the semi. The Ford came to rest in the southbound ditch. After the collision, the semi caught fire and the cab separated from the chassis and rolled into the northbound ditch.
Priscilla Wagner and a passenger in the semi, 70-year-old Richard Arthur Wagner, both died at the scene. Peters sustained life-threatening injuries and a passenger, 20-year-old Talon Jacob Hostetler, also of Torrington, was not injured.
The South Dakota Highway Patrol is investigating the crash.