VEBLEN, S.D. (AP) - Authorities have released the names of two teenagers killed in a crash in northeastern South Dakota.
The South Dakota Highway Patrol said 18-year-old Bishop Swallow of Nemo and 17-year-old Samantha Shortman of Rosholt were killed in the crash near Veblen on Monday morning.
Swallow was driving the Chevrolet Impala on a gravel road when the car went into the ditch and hit a tree. Shortman was a passenger and died at the scene. Swallow died while he was being airlifted to a Sioux Falls hospital.
The patrol said both were wearing seat belts, the Argus Leader reported.
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