A motorcycle crash Friday night on U.S. Highway 18 has left one man dead and a woman seriously injured after their bike struck a deer just four miles east of Hot Springs.
Preliminary crash information shows that the motorcycle was westbound on Highway 18 near mile marker 48 when, a little after 7 p.m., a deer ran into the road where it was hit by the bike.
According to the South Dakota Department of Public Safety, the accident occurred when a 62-year-old man from Hot Springs was riding his motorcycle with a 43-year-old female passenger. The collision with the deer caused both riders to be thrown from the vehicle.
The man was transported to Monument Hospital in Rapid City, where he later died from his injuries. The woman was taken to Fall River Health Services and is being treated for serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
Authorities confirmed that neither rider was wearing a helmet at the time of the crash.
The incident remains under investigation. Names of those involved are being withheld at this time.
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