By Associated Press - Friday, December 14, 2018

HERMOSA, S.D. (AP) - A 78-year-old woman is dead after a single-vehicle crash in Custer County.

The Highway Patrol says the woman’s sport utility vehicle went off a road 6 miles west of Hermosa, down an embankment and then off a 50-foot cliff, coming to rest on its roof.

The woman was pronounced dead at the scene shortly before 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Her name wasn’t immediately released.



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