The identities of Two people who died in a two-vehicle crash early Friday morning, seven miles north of Mission, have been released.
Preliminary crash information indicates 73-year-old Priscilla M. Wagner, the driver of a 2023 Kenworth T680, was traveling northbound on US Highway 83 near mile marker 29. At the same time, Kenneth George Peters, the driver of a Ford F250 was traveling southbound and sideswiped the semi. The Ford came to rest in the southbound ditch. After the collision, the semi caught fire and the cab separated from the chassis and rolled into the northbound ditch.
Priscilla Wagner and a passenger in the semi, 70 year-old Richard Arthur Wagner, both died at the scene. Peters sustained life-threatening injuries and a passenger, Talon Jacob Hostetler, was not injured.
Information on the crash is preliminary, The South Dakota Highway Patrol is investigating the crash.
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