Authorities identify Viborg woman killed in Turner County crash

December 22, 2020

Mike Tanner

VIBORG, S.D.–The South Dakota Highway Patrol says a Viborg woman was the person killed last week in a single vehicle crash four miles northeast of that town.

Seventy five year-old Mary Nelson was westbound on a road Wednesday night when she lost control of her vehicle, went into the ditch and rolled. She was airlifted to a Sioux Falls hospital, but died as a result of her injuries.

A passenger, 75 year-old Warren Nelson of Viborg, was taken to the Viborg hospital with serious, non life-threatening injuries.