Authorities identify woman killed in Brown County crash

September 16, 2020

COLUMBIA, S.D.–The South Dakota Highway Patrol has released the name of a woman killed when her vehicle collided with a semi in Brown County.

Fifty seven year-old Paula Kleinsasser of Mina died in the crash five miles west of Columbia.

Kleinsasser’s vehicle ran a stop sign and collided with the semi driven by 41 year-old Isaac Abeln of Columbia. 

He was airlifted to an Aberdeen hospital with non life-threatening injuries.