By Associated Press - Monday, November 6, 2017

SPEARFISH, S.D. (AP) - Authorities have identified a Whitewood man who died after a one-vehicle crash in Lawrence County.

The Highway Patrol says 47-year-old Richard Griffith was driving a pickup truck that hit the side of a bridge on a rural road east of Spearfish Wednesday morning. The pickup went into the ditch and rolled.

Griffith was flown to a Rapid City hospital, where he died the next day.



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