UPDATE: Authorities release name of woman killed in crash near Groton
SDHP
July 18, 2022
Mike Tanner
GROTON, S.D.–The South Dakota Highway Patrol has released the name of the woman killed in a traffic crash last week on U.S. Highway 12, five miles east of Groton.
Fifty year-old Melissa Sweeney of Fayetteville, North Carolina died when the car she was driving struck a deer, went off the highway and into a slough.
Sweeney was first airlifted to an Aberdeen hospital, then was transferred to a Sioux Falls hospital where she died.
Sweeney was alone in the vehicle.
The crash was reported on Monday July 11th at 1:10 a.m.