NEW: South Dakota’s fatality crashes up 27 percent this year (Audio)
August 2, 2021
Mike Tanner
PIERRE, S.D.–Highway fatalities in South Dakota are running significantly higher than a year ago…
Amanda Hossle is the director of South Dakota’s Office of Highway Safety…
Hossle tells KWAT News it’s those risky driving behaviors that make many of these fatal crashes avoidable…
Hossle says these fatal crashes are impacting a lot of lives…
So far this year, Hossle says there have been 70 fatal crashes that have killed 79 people. In all of 2020, there were 132 fatal crashes resulting in 141 deaths.
Those numbers will likely go up over the next few weeks with hundreds of thousands of motorcyclists making their way to South Dakota for the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, which begins Friday.