UPDATE: Authorities identify man killed in crash east of Bowdle

September 12, 2022

Mike Tanner

BOWDLE, S.D. – A Florida man has been identified as the person who died last Wednesday in a two-vehicle crash in Edmunds County .

The South Dakota Highway Patrol says the crash happened when two trucks collided at a U.S. Highway 12 intersection four miles east of Bowdle.

One of the trucks ran a stop sign, resulting in the collision.

Forty seven year-old Curtis Baker of Vero Beach, Florida, who was driving one of the trucks, was dead at the scene.

The second truck was driven by 59 year-old Steven Dupper of Herreid, South Dakota.

Dupper had minor injuries, and charges are pending against him.