By Associated Press - Tuesday, March 19, 2019

BLUNT, S.D. (AP) - A woman is dead after a crash in Hughes County involving a semitrailer and a sport utility vehicle.

The Highway Patrol says the SUV the 55-year-old woman was driving drifted into the path of the semi on U.S. Highway 14 on Monday afternoon. She died at the scene about a mile east of Blunt. Her name wasn’t immediately released.

The driver of the semi was taken to a Pierre hospital with minor injuries.



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